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Despite such attacks, Nomani plans more services, including one this week near Boston, as part of her Muslim Women's Freedom Tour, which some critics dismiss as a book junket in religious disguise. But her confrontational approach, not the substance of her arguments, is the problem for some would-be supporters. Such prayer services seem "less about worship and getting closer to God than about making a political statement," says moderate imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, author of What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West...
...lets profanities fly.) Some broadcast executives, meanwhile, have called for decency control over cable so that they could better compete with cable channels. The greatest hope for those who want to extend the state's power over media may be in the fact that most executives would rather lose freedom than money...
...Common Sense Media, which runs a website that rates TV shows, video games, music, books and websites for age appropriateness. "I'm no right-winger or religious ideologue," he says. "This is a nonpartisan issue." Kathleen Richardson of Des Moines, Iowa, is executive secretary of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and the mother of three kids, 12, 16 and 18. "Here I'm promoting free speech and the values of the First Amendment professionally," she says, "and yet it drives me crazy that my kids are swimming around in this pop culture that is becoming a sort of sewer...
...court, baseball's powerful union has negotiated such favorable free-agency and salary terms for its players that the exemption is no longer crucial. "It's a far smaller chip than Congress thinks it is," says Ganis. Withdrawing the exemption would allow baseball's minor-league teams more freedom to relocate, but many politicians have teams in their districts and want to keep them there...
...world is a gimmicky narrative device, but it frees Rivoli from the usual debate over global trade. She goes wherever the T shirt goes, and there are surprises around every corner. In China, Rivoli shows why a clothing factory, despite its harsh conditions, represents a step toward personal freedom for the women who work there. In the kaleidoscopic used-clothing bazaars of Tanzania, she realizes that "it is only in this final stage of life that the t-shirt will meet a real market," where the price of a shirt changes by the hour and can vary by its size...