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...Bayat who, despite her outspokenness, espouses a different vision of women's rights. A representative in Iran's majlis (or legislature), she and her female colleagues reinstituted gender segregation in the seating of the parliament. They worked to reverse efforts by female reformist MPs in the previous session to join the U.N.'s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Such membership would have obliged the Iranian government to abolish discriminatory rules against women regarding such matters as inheritance, child custody and blood money...
Earlier this year, Libera and FAADA mounted a campaign to encourage the Barcelona city government, which oversees the zoo, to transfer Susi to a safari-type institution where she would have more space and would be able to join a herd. But their efforts received little notice until they let it be known that both José Saramago, the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese novelist, and Sofia, Queen of Spain, had interceded on Susi's behalf. For her part, the Queen, who has long championed animal rights and is herself a vegetarian, forwarded the organizations' letter to the city government, urging...
...Wanna Join Our E-Study? Re "Logging On To The Ivy Leagues" [April 27]: granting degrees to students who qualify through online study is merely acknowledging the actualities of university study today - notes and exams are taken on computers. Grading and advice to students could easily be done via the Internet, and the cost per student would be reduced dramatically. John Leone, San Diego...
...asking even sex workers to join the cause, even if we have to pay them ourselves.' PATRICIA NYAUNDI, executive director of Kenya's Federation of Women Lawyers, on a campaign to get women to withhold sex to protest infighting in the coalition government...
...Texas Tantrum," Nancy Gibbs failed to mention that for 10 years Texas was a country--which successfully fought for independence from Mexico in 1836--before choosing to join the U.S. Do not compare Texas to Vermont, Hawaii and California. Mike Gallagher, HOUSTON...