Wednesday's Daily Brief

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Herman Cain Accuser Reportedly Received $35,000 In Severance Pay After Alleged Incident POLITICS Evangelicals Expect Romney's Mormonism To Be A Bigger Issue In The General Election WORLD Assange Loses Appeal Against Extradition To Sweden WORLD French Newspaper Office Set Ablaze After Publishing Prophet Muhammad Cartoon WOMEN The #1 Best Place To Be A Woman SPORTS Dodgers Owner Finally Agrees To Sell BLOG POSTS Matt Damon: Safe Water and a Toilet -- Is That Too Much to Ask... for 2.5 Billion People? Even today, as solutions are known and available, lack of access to safe water and sanitation continues to claim more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: SOS From Syria Perhaps Syrians may be asking for the impossible from the West, but they deserve what is realistically possible and that is considerably more than what they are getting now. Elena Azzoni: How A Lesbian Beauty Queen Spent A Year Dating Men I never expected to enter a lesbian beauty pageant. What happened in the year after I expected even less. Cecilia T. Capers: New Play Presents Tupac Shakur's Life with Rap, Rage, and Redemption It takes a high level of brashness and brilliance to embark on a journey to create a play about the enigmatic rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur. Shawn Lawrence Otto: Climate Scientist Wins A Round for America A hearing today has implications for academic freedom across the country. What is at stake is Americans' freedom to investigate, debate and express ideas that run counter to those of corporations.

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