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...feel vindicated that the make-believe companies are crashing down." JOHN ROGERS JR., chairman of U.S. firm Ariel Mutual Funds, on the plight of Internet companies in the ongoing tech bust...
...legislation, is unlikely to be passed. This, despite extensive debate over four sessions of the assembly and a Supreme Court ruling ordering a better deal for women. Critics say the governing Nepali Congress party, with its support largely from conservative rural areas, is not taking the bill or the plight of women seriously enough. "It would be a disaster if this oppor-tunity were missed," says women's activist Aruna Uprety. "If the bill fails, Nepali women will know that men in parliament don't want to help them...
Consider the plight of Devika, who gets no alimony because she is not legally divorced. Polygamy has been outlawed since 1963, but it is not unusual for men to dump their wives if they don't produce children. She has gone to court nonetheless, to see what the system can do for her. Once a week she travels to a women's center outside the capital where cases like hers are picked up and pursued through the courts. "I know that I'll get something out of this process," she tells a counselor at the center, wagging a finger...
...Until the very recent past, the entire continent of Asia shared the plight of a schoolkid searching for sexual wisdom from that universally unreliable school yard. There was one exception, that unique floating world called Japan, but it merely proved the rule. Asian countries were too poor for a sexual revolution. Or too stubbornly conservative. Or tangled in political ideologies. One thing they all had in common: they were tightly controlled by their stodgy, patriarchal leaders. And it always seemed the last thing on the minds of men like Deng Xiaoping or Lee Kuan Yew was getting a little...
...Chechnya and a leading commander of the Chechen resistance, issued a statement through an envoy condemning the hijacking and denying any responsibility. There's a sea of conflicting reports about what transpired on the plane. But the motive is clearly as we suspected - to bring world attention to the plight of Chechnya at the hands of the Russians...