Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon opened on a promising note with freshman Betsy Richmond downing Pam Banholzer, 1-6, 6-0, 7-6, (5-0) in a re-match of the New England championship quarterfinals this fall, which Richmond also...
...witnesses. A woman may request a divorce under certain circumstances-for example, if she is mistreated or her husband is impotent. Women must dress modestly, and their inheritance is limited to a fraction of that of men. In defense of these sexist inequities, scholars of the Shari'a note that Islamic law was advanced for its time. Before Muhammad, women in Arabia were mere chattel. The Koran emphatically asserts a husband's duty to support his wife (or wives), who are allowed to keep their dowries and to own property-rights that did not emerge until much later...
...need understanding to note that repression is not principally Islamic or Oriental but a reprehensible aspect of the human phenomenon. "Islam" cannot explain everything in Africa and Asia, just as "Christianity" cannot explain Chile or South Africa. If Iranian workers, Egyptian students, Palestinian farmers resent the West or the U.S., it is as a concrete response to a specific policy injuring them as human beings. Certainly a European or American would be entitled to feel that the Islamic multitudes are underdeveloped; but he would also have to concede that underdevelopment is a relative cultural and economic judgment and not mainly...
...over five years; a saver who leaves $500 on deposit over the full eight years will get $386.17 in interest, vs. $244.06 in a regular 5% bank account. Savers will also be able to buy a five-year certificate pegged to the average five-year Treasury Note rate, currently 9.2%; interest on the new certificate will be 1.25% less than that rate, or 1% less if bought at a savings bank. In addition, the $1,000 minimum for certain high-interest certificates of deposit will be cut in half or, in some cases, dropped altogether. Finally, regular savings accounts will...
Brown was careful to note that the relapse will one be temporary. "We were off today, but with Maine this Friday and Penn and Columbia the weekend after this is the only slump we can afford," he said...