| Thursday Night Lights: Texas integration offers lessons for NFL debate Posted: 24 Nov 2017 01:17 PM PST ![Thursday Night Lights: Texas integration offers lessons for NFL debate]( "Thursday Night Lights: Texas integration offers lessons for NFL debate") When Thurman Robins thinks of Thanksgiving he thinks of 1954, his ninth-grade year at the all-black Jack Yates High School in Houston, and their annual football game against Phillis Wheatley High School. As was often the case in Texas's blacks-only high school football league, he saw something that took his breath away. Decades later, November in Texas means the start of high school football playoffs.
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| The global spread of a culture of integrity Posted: 24 Nov 2017 11:31 AM PST ![The global spread of a culture of integrity]( "The global spread of a culture of integrity") One of the surprising news events of 2017 was the arrest of more than 200 prominent people in Saudi Arabia for corruption. The roundup on Nov. 4 even included powerful princes within the ruling royal family. Now the leader of the campaign, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has revealed a prime reason for this dramatic crackdown in the Middle East kingdom.
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| Rohingya women face greater magnitudes of suffering Posted: 24 Nov 2017 09:06 AM PST ![Rohingya women face greater magnitudes of suffering]( "Rohingya women face greater magnitudes of suffering") The massive flight of Myanmar's long-oppressed Rohingya ethnic group is following a sickening pattern of other recent displacements of populations – the Yazidis in Iraq, Syrians by the millions fleeing civil war, schoolchildren targeted by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist group – where the horrendous human rights violations suffered by those targeted are only magnified for that population's women and girls. The designation aims to "put pressure on the military in Burma," another name for Myanmar, "to act quickly" to secure conditions in Rakhine state, where the Rohingya live, and to make their repatriation possible, the officials said.
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| Parisian guide puts 'the second sex' in first place Posted: 24 Nov 2017 05:47 AM PST ![Parisian guide puts 'the second sex' in first place]( "Parisian guide puts 'the second sex' in first place") "We talked about a lot of great men – Napoleon, and Louis the XIV, and other kings of France mostly called Louis," she says. "And we talked a little bit about 'bad women,' like Marie Antoinette. Recommended: How much do you know about women's literature?
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