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...Downtown Islamic Center made room for four women on its board after they protested the design of a new mosque that would have given women inadequate space in which to pray. Instead, women got access to the main hall when the new mosque opened in July. In Dearborn, Mich., earlier this year, Imam Mohammed Mardini welcomed Christian women who weren't covering their hair, over the protests of men who wanted them barred. In Sacramento, Calif., not long ago, mosque leaders wrote their bylaws with clauses guaranteeing tolerance and gender equity. In New York City an emagazine, Muslim WakeUp!, organizes...
...softball with fire fighters and autoworkers on a small-town diamond in the heartland. But unknown even to some of Kerry's top aides, something that hadn't been written into the script was quietly taking place inside the luxury campaign bus parked just beyond right field in Taylor, Mich. Secret Service agents were laying secure phone lines, hanging privacy curtains and installing high-tech gear so Kerry could get a top-secret, 40-min. briefing on the intelligence that had prompted the Department of Homeland Security hours earlier to raise the terrorism alert level in New York City...
...seat after a lousy 2003, CEO Zetsche wasn't going to leave any detail of the 300 to chance. Over lunch at Chrysler headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich., he told TIME that he held talks with the design group to determine, down to the millimeter, the dimensions of the vehicle's imposing front grille. The chrome ringlets around the air conditioning and audio knobs: "That was from Dieter," says Gilles. Zetsche even suspended production of the air vents because they didn't close the way he wanted. "We had to have the courage to go for something different," Zetsche said...
...foolishness that pass for fun in Las Vegas should make us stop and wonder where we are going as a nation. PATRICIA DEE Glennie, Mich...
...great hotels and restaurants, wonderful shows and child-friendly arcades. But the pictures of strip clubs in your story were off-putting. You even made the Mandalay Bay's casino look seedy and cheap. What did you intend to do, keep middle-class people from visiting? MONICA STEVENS Farmington, Mich...