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...PEOPLE GET NERVOUS AROUND YOU AND START MINDING THEIR P'S AND Q'S? I certainly hope so! [Laughs.] But, no, I don't go around in my Miss Manners capacity where I would scare people to death...
Better known as Miss Manners, Martin has helped transform etiquette from the realm of society matrons to a tool for everyday life. In her new book, Star-Spangled Manners, she argues that American manners are an engine of equality. She talked to TIME's Richard Stengel, whom she hardly corrected...
...Washington and then as Israel's longest-serving Foreign Minister, Eban helped persuade the U.N. to approve the 1948 creation of the state and fervently defended Israel's aggressive actions in the pivotal 1967 war. Though he could be glib--he liked to say Palestinians "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity"--Eban was resolutely dovish, advocating an early land-for-peace deal. More popular with Jews abroad than with Israelis, many of whom were put off by his intellectualism, he also wrote several books, including the 1984 best seller Heritage: Civilization and the Jews...
...infested with them. NIGERIA Death Sentence Fashion writer Isioma Daniel reportedly fled to the U.S. after the state of Zamfara issued a fatwa (religious edict) telling Muslims to kill her. Daniel wrote a story in the newspaper ThisDay suggesting that the Prophet Muhammad would have approved of the Miss World contest and might have married one of its contestants. Nigeria's supreme Islamic body said that Muslims should ignore the fatwa and the country's federal government said it will not allow the death sentence to be carried out. SRI LANKA Tigers Grow Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Tamil Tiger...
...this game of make-believe that created the whole Miss World mess. The pageant’s organizers and the Nigerian government were both involved in a great fantasy that the pageant would work fine in Nigeria, ignoring a lot of facts and a lot of common sense. Nigeria’s large Muslim population would not act its part in this charade. It was not ready to accept an international beauty pageant, which one Islamic leader poetically described as a “parade of nudity.” When the riots began last week, the fantasy finally collapsed...