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Last week some additional facts came to light. The princess in question was Mashall bint Abdul Aziz, 23, whose arranged marriage had gone sour. She had fallen in love with Musleh al Sha'er, the nephew of the Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon, Ali al Sha'er. When their perilous affair was threatened with exposure, they obtained forged passports and attempted to flee the country by air. The princess disguised herself as a man, but was apprehended with her lover when security police at Jeddah airport glimpsed a suspiciously full-busted silhouette under the would-be traveler's traditional flowing thobe...
Under Saudi religious law, adulterers are punished by being stoned to death in public. According to some reports, however, Princess Mashall's sentence was "commuted" to shooting, perhaps because she was the granddaughter of Prince Mohammed, King Khalid's eldest brother (a notoriously ill-tempered man whose nickname is Abu Sharein, Father of the Double Evil). Although the princess's fate received the full Fleet Street treatment, other similar incidents in Saudi Arabia have passed virtually unnoticed. Last year, for example, another princely brother of King Khalid reportedly drowned one of his daughters in a swimming pool when he learned...
When Mary Lyon founded her school for girls in 1837, she avoided the word college because the "benevolent gentlemen" whose support she needed might not approve. Mount Holyoke "seminary" eventually did become a college, and several gentlemen became its president. Now, after 41 years, Holyoke is again to be headed by a woman: Elizabeth Kennan, 39, an associate professor of history and director of medieval and Byzantine studies at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. A Holyoke alumna, Kennan believes that only in women's colleges can women develop the strength to deal with the "crosscutting responsibilities of family life...
...Senate has already passed an offshore-oil bill that Suffolk County Executive John V.N. Klein feels is "about as good as we can get legislatively." The bill places strict limits on the amounts of oil drillers could leak into the ocean during routine operations and provides compensation for fishermen whose nets and equipment are damaged...
Understandably, there was a time when Farrell was a lodestar of the non-Communist left. His Studs Lonigan trilogy is a genre classic, a cluttered memoir of graceless Irish poor whose lyricism and potential are crushed in the struggle to survive. H.L. Mencken called their creator "the best living novelist," and Critic Alfred Kazin noted respectfully that "Farrell was the archetypal novelist of the crisis and its inflictions ... all the rawness and distemper of the thirties seem to live in [his] novels...