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Your task is to extract the thesis of an opinionated news article by selecting some of its text segments. The thesis is a summarization of what the author wants to persuade the reader of. Your answer should consist of segments of the given text. Note that you are not allowed to combine different sentences.
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Max Factor can't claim credit for Marilyn Monroe. Max Factor has appointed Marilyn Monroe as its new "global ambassador", leaving some people bemused at the idea of selecting an ambassador who has been dead since 1962 . They seem to suspect this might limit her diplomatic utility . But Monroe represents just what Max Factor wants to resuscitate: the glamour for which the company was once a byword . In the era of classic Hollywood (about 1920-1965), Max Factor ran the only cosmetic game in town , pioneering the use of makeup for cinema, and then, with his sons, adapting and selling those products commercially . Monroe remains one of the most iconic Hollywood movie stars , and Max Factor's spokeswoman said they chose her because she epitomises their history . "Marilyn made the sultry red lip, creamy skin and dramatically lined eyes the most famous beauty look of the 1940s, and it's a look that continues to dominate the beauty and fashion industry. It is the ultimate look that defines glamour - nothing else compares," the spokeswoman said . The campaign will emphasise Monroe's metamorphosis, it was reported this week, from "mousey" Norma Jeane Mortenson to glamorous Marilyn Monroe, a decision that seems, at face value, rather canny . Certainly it has stirred up a bit of welcome publicity around the campaign , which claims in particular that it was Max Factor Jr's idea to bleach the star's naturally chestnut hair to that famous platinum blonde . The ad campaign reads: "From Norma Jeane to Marilyn Monroe. Created By Max Factor." Hang on, boys . Created by whom? If Max Factor wants to emphasise history it should start by paying a little more attention to it . Monroe had her first - tiny - film role in 1947 ; she did not have her first starring role until 1952 . Throughout the 1940s, she was still "mousey" Norma Jeane . For my book on Monroe, I read every major biography then published, as well as many ancillary accounts - about 300 books in all . Not one reported that Max Factor suggested the aspiring starlet should bleach her hair . I don't think any of them mentioned Max Factor at all . Instead ,  nearly all credit a woman named Emmeline Snively, the head of Monroe's first modelling agency, with whom she signed in 1945 . Snively gave Marilyn lessons in fashion, lighting and grooming, and, most biographers report, recommended that she lighten her hair , "because a blonde could be photographed in any wardrobe and in any light" . By 1946 the model Norma Jeane had appeared on 33 magazine covers - quite a feat for a "mousey" young woman waiting to be created by Max Factor . Marilyn Monroe was not created by Max Factor - or by her studio head, Darryl F Zanuck(who hated her); or by her agent, Johnny Hyde, who paid for her to have minor plastic surgery (to the tip of her nose and her jawline) and got her first big roles; or by any of her directors, or husbands, or any other of a legion of men, and a handful of women , who have tried to claim the credit, now including Max Factor's heirs . She was not created by makeup, in any sense : cosmetics were not sufficient to create Marilyn Monroe , and neither were other people . Emmeline Snively herself said that what distinguished the girl she knew was how hard she worked : "She wanted to learn, wanted to be somebody, more than anybody I ever saw before in my life." Everyone from Elton John to Joyce Carol Oates(who should know better) has trotted out this tenacious, tiresome story : "ordinary" Norma Jeane was changed by someone else into the glamorous movie star Marilyn Monroe . But Norma Jeane Baker, as she was known in childhood(Mortenson was the name on her birth certificate, but she never knew her father), was always an extremely beautiful girl . An army photographer discovered her when she was 19, working at a munitions factory . She went on to be a popular model on the cover of dozens of magazines before she bleached her hair or focused her look . There was never anything "mousey" about this woman , and when she changed her hair, her makeup, and her name , she didn't become a different person . She created an iconic style , which she developed in collaboration with her personal makeup artist for many years, Whitey Snyder . No doubt Marilyn attended the Max Factor beauty salon near Hollywood Boulevard in the 1940s, along with hundreds of other young starlets . I have no reason to disbelieve that she may have worked with Max Factor Jr himself in the 1950s, once she was famous . But no one except Marilyn Monroe created Marilyn Monroe , and in 2015 it's past time for us to give credit to the woman who earned it .
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"Marilyn made the sultry red lip, creamy skin and dramatically lined eyes the most famous beauty look of the 1940s, and it's a look that continues to dominate the beauty and fashion industry. It is the ultimate look that defines glamour - nothing else compares," the spokeswoman said Marilyn Monroe was not created by Max Factor - or by her studio head, Darryl F Zanuck(who hated her); or by her agent, Johnny Hyde, who paid for her to have minor plastic surgery (to the tip of her nose and her jawline) and got her first big roles; or by any of her directors, or husbands, or any other of a legion of men, and a handful of women


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From Guantanamo to Montevideo and on to Havana. The news of the Guantanamo detainees' arrival to Uruguay received impressive coverage in international media . Uruguay is the second Latin American country to accept Guantanamo detainees ; the first one was El Salvador, which welcomed two Chinese nationals in 2012 . The fact that there have been only two countries in Latin America accepting Guantanamo inmates is already particularly extraordinary, given US historical ascendancy on the region . Even US' main allies in the region, Chile and Colombia, rejected US proposals to accept prisoners from Guantanamo, considering the move highly unpopular . Perhaps the spotlight fell on Uruguay as a Guantanamo detainee host because of Mujica's own media popularity over his unusually humble way of life as a world leader, and his progressive public speeches and political agenda . He also managed to get a lot of media attention over the arrival of around forty Syrian refugees in October , although they were few in number compared to the thousands of refugees that neighbouring countries such as Brazil and Argentina have been accepting . The day the detainees landed in Montevideo, Mujica sent an open letter to Uruguayans and Barack Obama . The first sentence reads,"Solidarity is the tenderness of the people", a quote from Pablo Neruda referring to the 1939 exodus of Spanish Republicans escaping fascism to South America . Neruda's words well reflect the main humanitarian goal of the operation , which aims to to reinforce the image of Uruguay as a peacemaker and international reference for humanitarian issues . "Pepe" has the aspiration, before ceding power to Tabare Vazquez at the beginning of 2015, to spread his humanitarian legacy and reinforce his world reputation . Through the well-publicised gesture, Mujica aims to give hope to all those disenchanted people who still think that idealism and ethics in politics are still possible . From a political perspective, Mujica's usual anti-imperialist stance left many in Uruguay astonished that he was willing to do a "favour" to Obama and accept the Guantanamo detainees . It is only in the second part of his open letter that his political goals become apparent . Mujica asks, as a gesture of reconciliation for all the American people, for the release of a 70 years-old Puerto Rican independence fighter, along with three Cuban detainees who are part of the group known as the Cuban Five , and whose controversial detention in the late 1990s led to a worldwide campaign for their release . He also asks for the lifting of the "unjust embargo" imposed on "our sister" Cuba . Mujica's plea is reflective of an emerging regional bloc different than the usual "left-leaning" one . It is instead a heterogeneous regional political bloc able to come to terms with ideological differences and to find common ground for regional coexistence in the name of progress . Best example of this is the ongoing peace talks between FARC and the Colombian government in Cuba, with the participation of Chile and Venezuela . Mujica's move, therefore, is not unprecedented . Back in 2009 the late Hugo Chavez hinted at the possibility of accepting Guantanamo detainees in Venezuela and at raising the issue of Cuba's isoluation . Cuba's reintegration into regional life, after decades of US ostracism, represents the main political goal of the bloc and of Mujica humanitarian operation . Therefore ,  it is not surprise that Jose Miguel Insulza, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) publicly lauded Mujica's move . Although leftist American governments have been particularly at odds with the Washington-based regional organisation, as consequence of the informal exclusion of Cuba under US pressure , Insulza has been working hard to reverse it . Just recently, he said that he hoped both Cuba and the US would attend the next OAS summit planned for April in Panama City . The US is unlikely to release the Cuban political prisoners , but Cuba's unilateral release of Alan Gross after 5 years could be part of a larger swap following Mujica's move . The six Guantanamo detainees will probably be the last ones to be resettled in the region . But their landing in Montevideo made it clear that Latin America is not, and will not be again the US backyard .
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The news of the Guantanamo detainees' arrival to Uruguay received impressive coverage in international media their landing in Montevideo made it clear that Latin America is not, and will not be again the US backyard


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Will the awful power of the word 'slut' defeat feminists' efforts to reclaim it? It's been over twenty years since then - Bikini Kill frontwoman and Riot Grrrl icon Kathleen Hanna scrawled the word SLUT across her stomach . In the years since, there's been a book called Slut! , countless feminist debates over the reclamation of the word "slut" and, in 2011, thousands of women took to streets across the globe in anti-rape marches called SlutWalks - a reference to how victims of sexual assault are often blamed for the violence done to them . Like "cunt" and "bitch", many feminists have long tried to wrest away from its original users the power and harm of the word "slut" and to give it new meaning . Increasingly, though, it's seeming like we might not succeed any time soon . Take Leora Tanenbaum: in 2000, she wrote Slut!: Growing up Female with a Bad Reputation chronicling girls' and women's experiences with the word . She herself was called a "slut" as a high school student in the 1980s - long before the term "sexual harassment" was coined - and told me"I had no vocabulary to understand what happened." Now, 15 years later, Tanenbaum is about to publish another book: I Am Not a Slut because, in part, the sheen of reclaiming "slut" seems to have worn off over the years . When she spoke to women who called themselves "sluts" with a "positive and defiant" spirit, all told her the decision had turned against them later- and all regretted it . Tanenbaum told me that, when women are in closed circle or close-knit community - like a protest with like-minded people, or among friends who understand the cheeky appropriation of the word - identifying as a "slut" can be empowering . But what inevitably happens, especially in today's digital culture where revenge porn, stolen pictures and cyber harassment is the norm, is that "it always spills outwards." For them it was an amazing feminist experience , but it didn't last . Every single person I spoke to who intentionally embraced a "slut" persona ended up being treated terribly by people outside of her circle , because the culture we live in is so dominated by the sexual double standard . But beyond women who tried to reclaim "slut" for themselves, other feminists have rightfully asked why we should all try to reclaim a word with so much baggage - especially a word that impacts different women differently, and brings them a lot more pain than righteous justice . SlutWalks, for example, are no longer the cause celebre they once were because some women of color spoke out against the ways in which the protests and the reclamation of "slut" focused on the ability of white women to simultaneously embrace the word and reject its meaning . A group of black female academics, activists, and writers wrote an open letter explaining that "as Black women, we do not have the privilege or the space to call ourselves 'slut' without validating the already historically entrenched ideology and recurring messages about what and who the Black woman is." Rutgers professor and writer Brittney Cooper wrote at the time,"To organize a movement around the reclamation of a term is in and of itself an act of white privilege." In response, some SlutWalk organizers changed the name of their protests ; today , while a handful of SlutWalks remain , the excitement over the movement has waned noticeably . But women everywhere are still being actively, physically hurt by the stereotypes that lead people to call them "sluts" . Just look to the high profile deaths of young women who were slut-shamed and a mass shooting where the killer said he was targeting "blonde sluts" : we're still being targeted because of our identities and sexualities , and it has, perhaps appropriately, put a damper on the once-celebratory reclamation of the word . Maybe that the wounds inflicted by "slut"- and the culture that encourages people to define women that way - that we once hoped were superficial are just too raw and too deep . Maybe the speed of the internet is too fast for us to control a word with so much potential to damage . There' s a poster on my living room wall by artist Favianna Rodriguez that reads:"I'm a Slut. I Vote. So Does Everyone I Sleep With. And You're About to be More Fucked Than I Am." For me, it captures the brash, in-your-face spirit that the feminist movement I've loved is known for . But in this time of unprecedented feminist power, the conversation about "slut" can be more reflective than fevered . Women who want to call themselves "sluts" shouldn't stop, or be made to stop - I love that women can embrace that which is meant to hurt them and find power in it . But I also know that we can still claim our sexuality and agency without using a word meant to denigrate- a word that still hurts so many people . Besides , we don't need "slut" to tell us what we already know: women have sex , some people don't like that and we're going to continue to do it anyway .
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Like "cunt" and "bitch", many feminists have long tried to wrest away from its original users the power and harm of the word "slut" and to give it new meaning


