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...secrecy surrounding honor killings often begins in the virginity-testing room in Baghdad's forensics institute, where a woman's fate can be sealed. Typically brought in by suspicious family members, a woman lies faceup on a bed fitted with stirrups and is examined by three male doctors, according to Iraq's legal requirements for such tests. The findings are then written down and may be critical to proving an honor-killing case later on. Pathologist Hassan Faisal al-Malaki, one of three doctors at the lab, says he currently tests about 10 women a week, up slightly from before...
...faltering as she begged for leniency. "My hopes that my life will not be completely destroyed lie entirely in your competent and experienced and merciful hands," she said. Stewart asked the judge to consider her decades as an icon to women, the suffering she had already endured, and the fate of her employees--200 of whom have lost their jobs...
Well, not exactly. Unfortunately, this noble action was no more than the figment of an imagination waxing pathetic. In reality, President Bush, despite repeated appeals from the Department of Education, simply could not be convinced to attend. A similar fate had arisen the previous year, when I was a scholar: Bush found time to meet with NCAA athletes in the White House just days before he was due to meet the Presidential Scholars, but when the scholars’ moment for recognition came, he never showed...
...anything the opposite appears to have occurred. The conduct of the hard-liners - from stealing the most recent parliamentary election in broad daylight to their defiant handling of the International Atomic Energy Agency's investigation of Iran's nuclear program and their hardball negotiations with the U.S. over the fate of al-Qaeda leaders in Iranian custody - suggests, if anything, that they're feeling rather lucky...
...understandable but no less ironic twist of fate, the advent of effective anti-HIV drugs has lulled people at all levels of society into dropping their guard against HIV--just as it did in the U.S. and other countries. "This government has done a good job on treatment and care," says Dr. Praphan Phanupak of the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. "But they have to get back into prevention. There needs to be a balance [between treatment and prevention] if you want to contain this virus...