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...This makes us a laughingstock.' ASHLI CHIN, a resident of Kuala Lumpur, on a Malaysian court's decision to cane a Muslim woman, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno (right), for drinking beer; the outcry over the verdict spurred the government to indefinitely postpone the punishment...
...demonstrators outside the embassy were a ragtag bunch. Their rank included cancer survivors, unemployed tradesmen and an elderly woman too wobbly to manage both a protest placard and a cane - in short, precisely the people socialized health care is designed to save. Jon Burden, whose wife's breast cancer is in remission, said he wanted critics to know that "without the NHS either my wife would be dead or I would be broke...
...last time Kerry spoke to Kennedy was a little less than two weeks ago. Kerry had just had hip-replacement surgery - he is still using a cane during his recovery - and Kennedy called to check on him. "And I said, What the hell are you doing calling me when you have so many other things to think about? It was typical of Teddy," Kerry says. Kerry last saw Kennedy a few weeks ago, when the two sat on the Kennedy compound porch in Hyannis Port, Mass. "You know, he couldn't put all things together at that point...
...Prisons Department officials are facing the dilemma of how to carry out the caning. "We have have never done it to a woman, and we don't know how to do it," said a department senior official who asked not to be named. There is not a single female in the department trained in the "Islamic way" to cane. Nevertheless, prominent Islamic officials in Malaysia have expressed disappointment at the reprieve. "The punishment is light and designed to shame, not to cause physically pain," Harussani Zakaria, an influential cleric, told TIME. "It must be carried out." Counters Amnesty International...
...like almost every politician does whenever anyone objects to almost anything, but instead says he's "surprised by the controversy surrounding my statement because I think it was a pretty straightforward commentary that you probably don't need to handcuff a guy, a middle-aged man who uses a cane, who's in his own home...