by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 23, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Lu marries Tham, but Chen marries Healy. Flannagan marries Kennedy, but Roberts marries Maheshwari. So the U.S. is still a melting pot, ethnically. But wait: birds of a feather—East Asian as well as Irish—are definitely flocking together. Both,...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Feb 15, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Madeleine Albright wrote in “My Undiplomatic Moment,†a commentary published in The New York Times on February 13, 2016, that she had said at a Clinton rally in New Hampshire “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Dec 12, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis It’s been nearly four months since we asked the State Department to grant open and public access to its statistics – broken down by gender and race – regarding promotions in the Foreign Service in “What’s the big secret with the...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Oct 30, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeYou gotta feel sorry for those ISIS guys. Young guys. In great physical condition. Yeah! Probably their equipment is in top working condition, by which I don’t mean the tanks and rocket launchers they captured from the Iraqi so-called army...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 23, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Nearly three years ago – July 22, 2011 to be exact – I described my dismay at the continuing lack of women in the senior career ranks of the State Department in a WV post entitled “Still an Man’s World: the State Department’s...
