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Gender reforms are slow and hard-fought. In 1999 the Emir of Kuwait, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, issued a decree for the first time giving women the right to vote in and stand for election to the Kuwaiti parliament, the only lively Arab legislature in the Persian Gulf. Conservatives in parliament, however, blocked its implementation. In addition, the legislature has voted to segregate the sexes at Kuwait University. Morocco's government has proposed giving women more marriage and property rights and a primary role in developmental efforts, but fundamentalists are resisting the measures...
Gender reforms are slow and hard-fought. In 1999 the Emir of Kuwait, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, issued a decree for the first time giving women the right to vote in and stand for election to the Kuwaiti parliament, the only lively Arab legislature in the Persian Gulf. Conservatives in parliament, however, blocked its implementation. In addition, the legislature has voted to segregate the sexes at Kuwait University. Morocco's government has proposed giving women more marriage and property rights and a primary role in developmental efforts, but fundamentalists are resisting the measures...
People aren't crazily buying up gas masks in Marietta; gun sales at Uncle Bob's sporting-goods store have stayed steady. But reasonable people are expanding the list of things that could go wrong in their lives. Two Kuwaiti students from Marietta College's petroleum-engineering department have returned home at their parents' request. Mayor Matthews has gone on the radio to tell people to return to normal. But he also tries to be realistic. "They can fly a plane into the World Trade Center. If they want to poison Marietta's water supply, we're not going...
...Kuwaiti Embassy spokesperson Noida Ashton also noted these options and added that of the 3,000 Kuwaiti students studying in the US, less than 200 have opted to return home...
...Rebuilding longer-term confidence in the solid supremacy of the American economic way may be in George W. Bush?s hands. It starts with the military response for which the world is waiting right now - this ten-year boom started when the tanks rolled onto Kuwaiti soil, and starting it again will take a psychological sense that the U.S. has its enemies in its sights, its political will galvanized, and its thinking cap on about how not to do more harm than good...