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...article’s description of Iraq as a place where logic does not apply is dangerous, because it suggests that no attempt to understand the situation is possible. As well as damaging the image of Iraq, it hinders America’s ability to make policy...
When French Justice Minister Rachida Dati on Monday ordered an appeal to a court decision annulling a Muslim couple's marriage on the grounds that the wife had lied about being a virgin before the wedding, the acclaim was almost universal. The ruling's logic - essentially creating the legal concept of chastity fraud - was widely seen as an attack on women's rights that undermined decades of progress on sexual attitudes. The lower court's ruling seemed as well to have put Muslim religious concerns above France's strictly secular laws. But for the woman whose public repudiation sparked...
...Koocher ’71, the 1982 push to regulate holiday festivities is in keeping with the “typical pandering” of the city council, which he recently said is governed by a “control mentality” with “no logic or fairness...
...work - that the right remains bent on finding ways of gutting the entitlement even as they promise to preserve it. A prime example came Thursday, as Betrand sought to explain why his draft legislation would not mean the end of the 35-hour week as a legal reference. "Our logic is to say 'Does the 35 hours week work for certain companies? Then you can keep it'," Betrand said. "Does the 35-hour week block others? Then you can do more by negotiating new rules...
...them expressed with such frank simplicity. Pisani is never one to mince words. "In the AIDS business we're all whores," she says. Given how aid groups seek out donors' money, "We're all selling ourselves to the highest bidder." As with the prostitutes, their actions follow a certain logic - and it could be deadly...