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• Observations around International Women’s Day 2012 by Harriett Olson
  03/08/2012 On March 8, 2012, International Women’s Day and Purim occurred in the middle of a firestorm ignited by the names a talk show pundit used to characterize Sandra Fluke, a 30 year old (Methodist) law student at Georgetown University who testified in support of no-cost access to contraception.

 

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