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February 02, 2012 | | CONTROVERSY Activists called foul after the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation announced Tuesday that it would be discontinuing about $700,000 in grants to Planned Parenthood, with some saying that the decision was politically motivated. Komen founder and CEO Nancy Brinker, a Republican who helped raise in excess of $100,000 for George W. Bush’s presidential campaign, said the decision was made because of a new policy that bars Komen from giving funds to organizations under government investigation. But the simpler explanation is the right one in this case, writes Michelle Goldberg, Komen caved to pressure from conservative groups. TRAGEDY A mother was found guilty of helping to mete out a brutal act of tribal justice this week in Canada. The Afghan-born woman assisted her husband and son in murdering her three daughters, all under the age of 21, as well as her husband’s first wife. Asra Q. Nomani writes about the ‘vigil-aunties’ who often enforce strict female obedience in traditional cultures, and who are sometimes willing to use violence if necessary. INVESTING Forget the 1% and the 99%. It’s women, write Melanne Verveer and Kim Azzarelli, who present the greatest vehicle for global economic growth. Major international corporations like Coca-Cola and Goldman Sachs are launching initiatives to bring more women into the corporate fold. A push is on by the Third Billion Campaign to make 1 billion women active participants in the global economy by 2025. What’s good for women is good for their communities, Verveer and Azzarelli argue. Research shows that hiring women creates ‘shared value,’ benefiting local areas as women put their income back into their towns and cities. JOB SEARCH The Secretary of State said she intends to retire. So, what’s next? Should she dictate her memoirs? Nag Chelsea to give her a grandchild? Establish Clinton Global Initiative 2.0? Be a Supreme Court justice? Run for president against Obama? On that last option, she said there is a ‘below-zero chance.’ But there’s an above-zero chance that she will be Obama’s vice presidential running mate this year, since she does enjoy the highest approval rating (64 percent) of all political figures in the U.S. Another possibility, writes The Daily Beast’s Josh Dzieza, is the presidency of the World Bank, which would give her something to do until a possible run for presidency in 2016. TRIUMPH In a chilling story as told to The Daily Beast’s Abigail Pesta, a survivor of child abuse, California businesswoman Genyfer Spark recounts her escape from a shockingly brutal childhood. Once, she even wrote a note to Oprah that said: ‘Help. My parents are trying to kill me.’ With a mother who was good at convincing social workers that there was no real problem, Spark was regularly returned home to her abusers after spending time at youth homes. But one night when she was 14, she escaped in handcuffs and ropes, leaping out the window. She never went back, eventually putting herself through college and launching her own business. Spark lived to tell, but many children don’t. Five kids die every day from child abuse in the U.S. alone. To help, visit the National CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Association, which advocates for abused children, making sure they don’t get lost in an overburdened system. | | 
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