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...really were thrown into an adult world,” he says...
...ensue. The movie: Unfaithful. The director: Adrian Lyne. Like his previous forays into adultery--Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal--this one is designed to provoke debate. Since the movie's opening on May 10, some critics have called it an exploitative morality tale; others have championed it as thoughtful adult drama. But almost everyone agrees that actress Diane Lane's rendering of an irresistibly average mom driven mad by passion is, by itself, worth the price of admission. Co-starring Richard Gere as the husband and Olivier Martinez as the lover, Unfaithful has already made Lane an early contender...
...judge in the ultraconservative Northwest Frontier province exonerated the man and last month convicted Zafran Bibi of adultery. Her sentence: death by public stoning. In Pakistan, victims of sex crimes are subject to harsh Islamic laws known as the Hudood ordinances. For a rapist to be found guilty, four adult male Muslims have to witness the crime, or the rapist must confess. If the court rules there was consent, the woman can be convicted of adultery, as Zafran Bibi was. Although no stoning sentence has ever been carried out, human-rights activists say that women's lives are ruined...
...CRUMB SELLS "ZAP COMIX" No. 1 OUT OF A BABY CARRIAGE IN SAN FRANCISCO, BEGINNING THE ADULT, UNDERGROUND COMICS MOVEMENT...
...called Hudood ordinances, a series of Islamic decrees that are enforced in tandem with the country's secular legal system. Human rights activists say these laws blatantly discriminate against women. For a rapist to be convicted, for example, his crime has to be confirmed by four adult male Muslim eyewitnesses, or the rapist must confess. If the court rules that there was consent, the woman can be convicted of adultery. Sentences under the Hudood ordinances include amputation for theft, flogging for drinking alcohol and stoning for adultery. And, while the medieval punishments are never carried out, convicted adulterers often spend...