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...comes next." Those anxieties are spurring a few activists to venture into the political arena; the only chance they have to eliminate honor-killing laws, they say, is to flood political parties with women who can win positions in the government and fight from the inside. "Nothing will change unless we get elected," says al-Souhail, who has emerged as a leading women's-rights campaigner. "It's going to be a big fight because no one in Iraq declares it a crime...
...feel the implant. I cannot figure out if this is an intimate form of bonding or just a Vegas handshake. The new Vegas has upped not only the sex but also the violence. Boxing has been outdrawn by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (U.F.C.), a chain-link-caged, rule-free (unless you count "no biting, no eye-gouging") contest so bloody it has been decried by the American Medical Association, banned by New York and dropped by pay-per-view cable. At a bout last month, spectators included Cindy Crawford and basketball player Shaquille O'Neal - who, the owners say, once...
...seems to have little sway over many large employers. Workers in Germany are fighting a tide of proposed deals involving threats to export jobs. When DaimlerChrysler said it would move 6,000 jobs from a factory at Sindelfingen, near Stuttgart, to plants in northern Germany and South Africa unless workers agreed to wage concessions, it wasn't bluffing. So autoworkers' union IG Metall agreed to give up a 2.8% pay rise in 2006 in exchange for a job guarantee until 2012. The company's 15,000 research and development employees will also work a 40-hour week instead...
Students are required to sit out a season when switching programs, unless the athletic department at the first school grants a waiver freeing the athlete from his or her prior commitment. Generally the provision is designed to protect teams against intra-conference transfers, but Tennessee still refused to free Bassi to compete...
...hawkish element pushing for a policy of regime-change in Washington sees the group as a valuable proxy force to use against Tehran, and opposes handing them over. And the message from the mullahs in Iran appears to be that they won't play ball unless regime-change is taken off the table of U.S. policy options...