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...Arab woman investor has a long history. The Prophet Muhammad met his first wife, a wealthy Meccan trader, when she hired him to take caravans to Syria. When the Gulf's economy relied on pearls and fish, not gas and oil, absent men often left women in charge of their business affairs. Today, many Gulf women have lots of liquid assets, partly because of Muslim inheritance law. Shari'a dictates that a married woman's wealth is her own; spending on her household is her husband's responsibility...
Conspicuously absent from Barack Obama's grand tour of the Middle East and Europe was a stop in Islamabad. No doubt Pakistan is a touchy subject for Obama. During the Democratic primary he promised to "take out" al-Qaeda in Pakistan's lawless Northwest Frontier Province, which unleashed Hillary Clinton's acid contempt and disapproval from a lot of other people who understand that Pakistan is a mess that can't be fixed anytime soon...
...dealer Glen Parshall feels government should do little more than "protect the country's territory." The Constitution defines a much broader role for government, including the protection of our freedoms of speech, religion and assembly. I am sure Parshall understands that, absent that seminal document, which is the foundation of our government, our country might have become a dictatorship - a form of government I'm certain he would find more odious than our constitutional republic seems to be to so many Libertarians. Gary Nelson, Martinsburg, Pennsylvania
...With Ebert absent for the past two years, Roeper and an array of guest critics - from the Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips to the New York Times' A.O. Scott - have kept the weekly show going. But last summer Ebert and Disney found themselves embroiled in a very public fight in negotiations over Ebert's contract. Disney issued a press release in August 2007 saying it would no longer use the "thumbs-up/thumbs-down" trademark in the show because Ebert told the company he wouldn't allow it during a contract renegotiation...
...Started in 1958 and shot over three years, then absent from public view until the UCLA Film Archive restored it, The Exiles is now finally in theaters, thanks to Milestone Films. This is the company that last year resurrected Charles Burnett's magnificent Killer of Sheep. (Burnett is a co-presenter of The Exiles, with Native American novelist and filmmaker Sherman Alexie.) Mackenzie's dramatized documentary film isn't quite in the Killer of Sheep class, but it's an acute, great-looking, doggedly noncommittal view of a culture just one step up from the lower depths: Native Americans...