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...call with analysts and reporters. The Wall Street Journal, which he owns, is one of the very few news operations to charge users to see its content online. Now he wants to put all his sites - News Corp. is the biggest producer of news in the English-speaking world - behind a pay wall. That includes the online output of papers that run the spectrum of quality all the way from the snobby Times of London to the grubby New York Post, not to mention broadcaster Fox News Channel (FNC). (See the top 10 newspaper movies...
Some women wear the veil of their own volition, and not to comply with rules imposed by their husbands or parents. “I am happy behind the veil, I protect myself from depraved stares. Neither my father, nor my brother, nor my husband forced the full veil upon me; it's a personal choice," wrote one Muslim woman on LePoint.fr, as quoted in The Christian Science Monitor...
...France, a country with nearly four million Muslims, is now considering a ban on the traditional Muslim burka. President Nicholas Sarkozy recently declared that the garb is “not welcome” in his country, since France would not accept that “women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity.” While some have touted this move as a chance to remove women from the strictures thrust on them by an oppressive fundamentalist culture, others disagree...
...little white yard signs are all over my neighborhood, where the former President and First Lady moved after the Obama inauguration this past January. And these poster-board rectangles with the former Bush campaign logo put to a new (and arguably more effective) use have an interesting story behind them, apocryphal...
...tumult. And so, with a measure of bravado, the government recently announced the imminent removal of most of the concrete blast walls that separate warring neighborhoods and protect citizens traveling on main and secondary roads. As it tries to put the bad days of Sunni vs. Shi'ite violence behind it, Baghdad is rewarding post-sectarian behavior, giving $2,000 to couples who marry outside their sect - an incentive for Sunni-Shi'ite nuptials - in an effort to construct a social metaphor for national unity...