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...Mouna Adnan Habib, 32, a mother of two, who had been delivered to the city morgue with five bullets in her chest. Habib's left hand had been cut off--a practice common in honor killings, in which men amputate the woman's left hand or index finger to display as proof to tribal leaders and relatives that the deed has been done. In Habib's case, relatives suspected her of having an affair. "They saw her talking to a man a few times," said al-Jadr, whose staff investigated the case. Local police have told al-Jadr that they...
...known to call colleagues in the middle of the night to share his latest brainstorms. In addition to the first-class luxury retail brands you would expect to find (Cartier, Chanel, Louis Vuitton), his shops will offer an array of his own private-label products. Also on display in a gallery will be selected works from the world-class art collection that was prominently featured at the Bellagio. (Wynn recently paid $8.8 million for a John Singer Sargent portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson.) While rival executives tend to mock his Renaissance-man profile, what really rankles them is his aggressive...
...Simpsons” and, occasionally, an episode of “The Family Guy” a roommate had downloaded onto his computer. But my summer cartooning mixes the comic and the action, and the protagonists of these shows are heroes—they display great courage, defeat their enemies and always do the right thing...
...travels just a few blocks to visit friends, she must make elaborate arrangements to be picked up by her husband in his car. Taxis, which are often driven by thugs or terrorists, are far too dangerous. Women who used to go out wearing gold jewelry and makeup no longer display even wedding rings outside the house. Though many women among Iraq's educated middle class now don head scarves as protection from the dirty looks of religious extremists in the streets, Nafret refuses. "That's not my style, and I won't do it," she says. She is bitter about...
That obstructionism was on amazing display at the recent NATO summit in Istanbul. The supremely courageous President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, flies there to beg for our troops to protect his country in the run-up to September elections. Two female election workers had already been murdered and some 16 men had been shot to death by insurgents for registering to vote...