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Joanie Leeds sat at the 2018 Grammy Awards, furiously writing notes on her phone. After singer Alessia Cara was one of the few women to win an award that night snatching Best New Artist she felt angry about the lack of female representation in the music industry.
“I was so upset that women were just basically not getting any awards and barely any nominations that year either,” said Leeds, a Syracuse University alumna.
Along with her experience at the Grammys, Leeds was also upset after seeing an Annenberg Inclusion Initiative study about the music industry, discovering women are underrepresented across the field.
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Each year, graduating editors are given 30 final column inches – “30” was historically used to signify the end of a story – to reflect on their time at The Hatchet, published in the final issues of the year.
I came to GW shy and awkward but eager and ready to learn. I didn’t know where I would fit in but knew I wanted to join the student newspaper.
I don’t remember how it came to be, but I ended up in that musty townhouse basement during one of the first weeks of my freshman year for a photo meeting. As the year passed, I attended more meetings, usually sitting on the floor next to Arielle Bader, and took more and more assignments. I’m sure I was awkward, and I remember being a little scared of the older staff members, especially the ever so elusive Olivia Anderson. I remember being annoyed once because she asked me to redo a very simple assignment that I had messed up. It wasn’t until I worked with her later that
By Susan Page
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It’s difficult to write a fresh-sounding biography of a woman who has been in Washington longer than some members of Congress have been alive.
But even longtime watchers of House Speaker Nancy Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) will learn something new about the most powerful woman in the country and how she got that way from USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page’s new biography, “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,” out this week.
By Michael W. Chapman | April 15, 2021 | 9:31am EDT
U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)
(CNS News.com) Left-wing Democrats Sen. Ed Markey (Mass.), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Rep. Hank Johnson (Ga.), and Rep. Mondaire Jones (N.Y.) introduced legislation today to expand the U.S. Supreme Court from 9 seats to 13, a step that many Republicans and conservatives have denounced as packing the court to help keep Democrats in power indefinitely.
The House Judiciary Committee, headed by Nadler, said in a press release, This bill would restore balance to the nation’s highest court after four years of norm-breaking actions by Republicans led to its current composition and greatly damaged the Court’s standing in the eyes of the American people.