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...was upset by??your choice of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch politician and director whose film Submission portrays a Muslim woman ritually abused by the men in her family. As a female practicing Muslim living in the West, I have found it frustrating that the Western media are obsessed with the "plight" of Muslim women. While there is progress to be made in women's rights in the Muslim world, change does not necessarily have to occur within the Western framework. Most Muslims find Hirsi Ali too extreme, though we don't agree with honor killings...
...was outraged by??Michelle Cottle's article, in which she confessed she wasn't much of an environmentalist until now, when she is pregnant [April 18]. What selfishness! Is it all right then to destroy the environment as long as it affects only those who are out of the womb? Preserving the environment has to be humankind's top priority at all times. Conserving what we have requires a careful balancing of benefits and costs, plus modulated change. With allies like Cottle, who needs enemies...
...By??the time children turn 18, they have spent only 13% of their waking lives in the classroom. Their habits of mind, motivation and muscles have much more to do with that other 87%. But try telling that to an Ivy-educated mom and dad whose kids aren't doing well. It can't be the genes, Mom and Dad conclude, so it must be the school. "It's the bright children who aren't motivated who are most frustrating for parents and teachers," says Nancy McGill, a past president of the Iowa Talented and Gifted Association. "Parents...
...By??age 38, Vivek Paul had already seen his American Dream come true. He arrived in the U.S. from India as an M.B.A. student in 1980, worked hard, married, started a family and rose to a top job at GE, having been recruited by Jack Welch himself. Then, in 1999, Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, an Indian conglomerate, called him back to India. He asked Paul, a former water-polo captain, to take over his software unit, Wipro Technologies. "He said, 'You can build another skyscraper in New York,'" Paul says, "'or you can build a completely new thing...
...By??early August, Bush was fighting to get back on offense, and in the conference room on Air Force One, he thought he had finally found a way. Nine days earlier, at his convention, Kerry had said he would never mislead the country into war, and so Bush would now force him to explain his vote authorizing it. "I'm going to keep after him," Bush told aides, "until he answers...