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...religious leader took one small step toward gender equality last week when he banned the practice of forcing women to marry against their will. Calling such coercion "un-Islamic" and "a major injustice," the kingdom's Grand Mufti, Sheik Abdul Aziz al-Asheik, proclaimed that fathers and male guardians who try to force their daughters into wedlock should be thrown in jail until the men change their minds. He made it clear that forced marriages originated as a pre-Islamic custom and are antithetical to Shari'a law, which stipulates that a woman must consent to a marriage or else...
...famously wrote of Muslims who were cheering after the Sept. 11 attacks, not least because Coulter might be shrink-wrapped in a black-leather mini as she says it. The combination of hard-charging righteousness and willowy, sex-kitten pulchritude is vertiginous and--for her many young male fans--intoxicating...
...Larry Summers is being punished in the name of political correctness for his ideas on male and female brains. But this controversy isn't about whether a theory is right or wrong. It's about whether academic freedom is at risk. Mary L. Mitchell Toronto...
...question is not whether women lack an innate ability to succeed and excel in science (that is simply not the case) but whether there are gender-based, neuronal differences in how males and females perceive input, frame scenarios and derive conclusions. If male and female scientists arrive at identical conclusions via similar yet subtly different pathways, it suggests that together we may reach a far greater understanding of any particular problem than through any single-gender effort. In the pursuit of scientific truth, the wealth of knowledge gained through diverse perspectives truly elevates us. I sincerely hope...
...race today appears no more predictable than it did two weeks ago. But I?ll run the risk of declaring my Top 10 papal candidates, though I?ve included a safety net as No. 5. But not even that is foolproof, since Church law allows that any baptized male can be elected Pope. So good luck to all of those you out there...