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...SAN FRANCISCO Last year's 4,000 gay marriages were voided by the state supreme court, but another judge has ruled a ban on same-sex unions illegal...
...ban is another sign that the push for democracy in the Middle East may finally be reaching women. Hundreds of Kuwaiti protesters last month demanded that women be given the right to vote. Women's suffrage will be granted in Qatar when its new constitution takes effect in June. Women in Iraq are demanding a greater voice in the newly formed government there. And the Saudi government has even raised the possibility of granting women the right to vote in the next elections. Shibley Telhami, a Middle East expert at the University of Maryland at College Park, thinks the Grand...
Eight months later, Coulter's relationship with MSNBC ended permanently after she tangled with a disabled Vietnam veteran on the air. Robert Muller, co-founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, asserted that "in 90% of the cases that U.S. soldiers got blown up [in Vietnam]--Ann, are you listening?--they were our own mines." (Muller was misquoting a 1969 Pentagon report that found that 90% of the components used in enemy mines came from U.S. duds and refuse.) Coulter, who found Muller's statement laughable, averted her eyes and responded sarcastically: "No wonder you guys lost." It became...
...scrupulously" the secret and solemn rite for electing the next Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. Truly reliable information continues to be scant, but several emerging hypotheses offer an indication of how the voting may go. Though my Cardinal sources have been faithful to their self-imposed press ban, I have continued to talk to a number of Vatican officials and others who are in touch with Cardinals, about the possible scenarios and the viability of different candidates...
...week progresses. The Americans may be the hardest to crack. TIME's Midwest bureau chief Marguerite Michaels, who knows how to squeeze information out of tight-lipped Chicago cops and UN diplomats, is politely hounding the U.S. Cardinals. But one well-connected insider said the press ban is weighing heavy on the group of 11 American Cardinals. They are "Boy Scouts," this source said. "In the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, an American will stop at a red light. An Italian thinks, 'What a nice suggestion,' and drives on. Our guys aren't talking...