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...indicated that he will appoint women to his cabinet, and Kuwaiti activists are pressing for more reforms to ensure women get a fair deal in parliamentary elections scheduled for 2007. Campaigners fear that conservatives in the parliament could still push through legislation to force women running for office to wear the veil. Still, they acknowledge they've won an important battle. "There is nothing that prevents women from full political participation," says Najla Alial Naki, a female Kuwaiti lawyer. "Finally, democracy is now complete and Kuwait can move forward...
...town's residents can peer across a stretch of river at the scrubby, brown hills of North Korea, knowing that hidden from view are bunkers, artillery and rockets that could turn their town into rubble in an hour. But for people like Kim In Tae, who sells women's wear in Ilsan's Lotte department store, the weaponry poses no more of a threat than a stand of pine trees. "Unless the U.S. attacks North Korea first, I'm not nervous," Kim says. "North Korea wants to be equal to the U.S. in the international community. They don't have...
Several Houses sent large contingents of vocal supporters to cheer on their nominees—Winthrop residents even brought along a canine mascot to escort McCambridge down the aisle during the formal-wear competition...
Contestants were judged in swimwear, talent, and formal-wear competitions...
Although the No. 17 Lady Volunteers (15-9) outranked Harvard nationally and were seeded 16th overall in the NCAA draw, the Crimson put together a solid collective effort over more than three and a half hours of play to wear down its opponent...