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...those inexplicable feats of pop-culture timing that this is also the season of the feminist soap opera in prime-time TV. Cashmere Mafia on ABC and Lipstick Jungle on NBC both center on high-income, high-powered, high-style Manhattan friends who talk business and love lives over expense-account lunches. In the process they raise some of the same questions the presidential race does: Is women's success held against them? Can they be different yet equal? Can they stand by their men and get stood by in return...
Tony Blair may no longer be the prime minister of the United Kingdom, but he is still making important news. Shortly before Christmas, Blair announced to the world that he is converting to the faith of his wife and children and becoming a Roman Catholic. While this may seem to be a personal matter of little relevance to us here in the United States, it is a historical event with many practical implications in Britain and in other countries around the world...
...Throughout much of his prime ministership and public life, Blair had elected to attend Roman Catholic Masses instead of the Anglican services of his own church, the Church of England. He even received Holy Communion at Mass despite not being a Roman Catholic, a practice that was criticized by the Archbishop of Westminster at the time. So why did Blair wait until he left office to officially convert to Catholicism? Quite simply because he was prevented from doing so legally and politically...
Shortly before her own tragic death in December, Bhutto was negotiating an American-backed deal with President Pervez Musharraf to allow her to become prime minister again. The lawyer-led, pro-democracy movement in Pakistan saw this as a Faustian pact with a hated dictator...
That she was personally secular—as well as immensely courageous—is unquestionable. However, these views did not translate into policies as prime minister. Her record as an anti-terrorist crusader is murky, at best. While Bhutto was prime minister, the Pakistani intelligence services helped install the Taliban in Afghanistan. There was also a huge spike in Pakistan’s monetary and strategic support for jehadis in Kashmir during her tenure. While Bhutto’s direct responsibility for both these actions is debatable, they were nonetheless incongruous with the simplistic anti-terrorism crusader image that...