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...pulled over after just 200 m while officials from the Prisons Department, the Attorney General's chambers and the Islamic courts argued over the case. In the end, a decision was made to defer the caning because of the Ramadan fasting season that had started on Sunday. "This is sad, [because] I am being kicked about like a football," Kartika said on her return home. "I was hoping to be caned and get on with my life." (See pictures of Malaysia...
South African Policy I found your coverage of the Zimbabwean situation informative but sad [Aug. 3]. The South African government could easily bring Mugabe into line instead of propping him up. Recall how Balthazar Johannes Vorster brought Ian Smith into line and forced a free and fair election. All authorities recognize the last Zimbabwean one wasn't, and yet Mugabe is still in a strong position of authority. Shame on you, South Africa! Peter Graham, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
...South African Policy I found your coverage of the Zimbabwean situation informative but sad [Aug. 3]. The South African government could easily bring Mugabe into line instead of propping him up. Recall how Balthazar Johannes Vorster brought Ian Smith into line and forced a free and fair election. All authorities recognize the last Zimbabwean one wasn't, and yet Mugabe is still in a strong position of authority. Shame on you, South Africa! Peter Graham Johannesburg, South Africa
...calls the "secular effort to reject any sense of a spiritual life as mattering." And days before he officially joined the Catholic Communion on March 29, he was among the first to criticize the University of Notre Dame for inviting Barack Obama to speak, Twittering (of course): "It is sad to see notre dame invite president obama to give the commencement address since his policies are so anti catholic." (See TIME's 10 Questions for Newt Gingrich...
...made worse by recession, that drags them and their families from town to town. Kilborn examines the price families pay in Relovilles as they try to maintain a bit of consistency in their lives and concludes that the trend isn't so much good or bad as just rather sad...