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...time you sit down at a new restaurant, you might be better off abandoning the menu and instead asking a fellow diner, "What's good here?" Or you might even consider asking friends, family or the village elders whether your partner is marriage material or not. "Most Westeners would reject the notion outright that someone else would pick your marital partner more accurately than you can. It's not clear to me that's true," Gilbert says, conceding that in the case of marriage, the only person who could really help you predict the suitability of a life partner...
Later this year, the Turkish scholars are expected to publish six volumes that reject thousands of Islam's most controversial practices, from stoning adulterers to honor killings. Some hadith, the scholars contend, are unsubstantiated; others were just invented to manipulate society. "There is one tradition which says ladies are religiously and rationally not complete and of lesser mind," says Ismail Hakki Unal of Ankara University's divinity school, a member of the commission. "We think this does not conform with the soul of the Koran. And when we look at the Prophet's behavior toward ladies, we don't think...
...others. Earlier this week the CAW gave up a special annual bonus and agreed to a reduction in paid time off in reaching a deal with General Motors. But that deal was criticized by some in the industry as insufficient. Indeed, Ford Motor Co. said Friday it will also reject the GM-CAW deal for not cutting costs enough. (See portraits of GM autoworkers...
...from Blake’s lonely, rainy funeral to Veidt’s ancient Egyptian-style retreat in Antarctica. This attention to detail, however, inevitably makes the movie feel slow at times. The viewer must embrace it and soak in the film’s visual extravagance, or reject it and battle moments of boredom, which at 163 minutes the movie cannot avoid.The film’s saving quality is that when it seems to be losing momentum, Snyder injects humor to restore the tempo. And “Watchmen” certainly laughs at itself at times, from...
...station, said al-Zaidi's actions were an embarrassment to the country and to his profession. "He's set a bad example for journalists in Iraq," she said. "I'm not a legal expert - I don't know if he should have been sentenced - but as a journalist, I reject his actions...