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Sonsie has partitioned itself, each domain comprising a distinctive sort of customer— stalwart males and their waifish dates cluster thickly round the bar counter, while just across the room, the prettily-preened parental-aged crowd repose in their exclusive, primly-upholstered preserve. The “café” section in the front is host to college-kid convocations and lovers’ trysts...
...initial reaction to the first protests was that rescinding the invitation might compound the problem by incurring counter-charges of censorship,” he wrote...
...Lott had developed a sudden affection for Dean Barkley. "We're offering to be helpful to him in any way we can," the Mississippi senator told TIME with a coy southern drawl. Get Barkley to side with the Republicans on leadership votes and Lott could score a counter-coup on Daschle...
...more seats in the Senate - but next week. In fact, last Tuesday afternoon, as Lott sat in his ornate office on the second floor of the Capitol staring at two wide-screen TV's blaring election returns from ten different stations around the country, he was secretly plotting a counter-coup against Daschle. That was why the phone call that had just come in Tuesday afternoon was important. It was from Rudy Boschwitz, the Republican senator the late Paul Wellstone had unseated 12 years ago. Lott pushed the mute button on the TV remote so he could hear what Boschwitz...
...dialogue in which Muslim sociologist Leïla Babès and Tareq Oubrou, rector of the Mosquée de Bordeaux, thrash out their often opposing views on the roles of women and individual freedom in Islam. Although non-Muslim readers may be daunted by the quotations and counter-quotations from hadiths (the reported sayings of the Prophet) that fill so much of any Muslim theological discussion, the book provides a fascinating glimpse of how Islamic traditions are faring in a modern, secular society. The book reads like a series of e-mail exchanges, in which...