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...pressure to adhere to conservative norms. Newspaper ads are being Photoshopped to lengthen sleeves and skirts. Rowers on a university team were recently beaten up by unidentified assailants for wearing shorts. Meanwhile, Erdogan has called on women to have at least three children, and his cabinet includes just one woman. Under the AKP, the share of women in the workforce has dropped, from...
...shining today on Hartlepool Bay in the Northeast of England, but it's a fair bet Anne Darwin was not remotely disposed to a day of water sports. For the second day this week, the 56-year-old woman is on trial for her alleged involvement in the celebrated disappearance and resurfacing of her husband, John Darwin, a.k.a. Canoeman. As the alleged accomplice to a monumental subterfuge, she faces five counts of obtaining money by deception and one of obtaining property by deception, all of which she denies. John has already pled guilty to seven similar charges and awaits sentencing...
...Central America with the proceeds of their fraud, which amounted to $500,000 in insurance payouts. Robertson showed the jury a photograph of the smiling couple with a Panamanian estate agent in July 2006: "When you look at that photo you will have to consider whether she was a woman whose own will had been overborne or whether in fact that picture is indicative of a woman who was very happy at the prospect of enjoying the fruits of this fraud...
...form, he notes, she "bests" him even here: her dalliance took place in a Cadillac, his in a Datsun. It was clear during her childhood in Michigan, Ciccone says, that Madonna wasn't shy about deploying her sexuality to get what she wanted - Bette Midler once called her "the woman who pulled herself up by her bra straps." But while his sister wielded sex as a weapon, especially after dropping out of college to pursue stardom in New York, Ciccone's sexuality often posed him problems. After he came out to his father, a conservative Catholic, the elder Ciccone sent...
...July 27 decision was revealed in Le Monde, which began its story asking whether "the burqa is incompatible with French nationality" The story suggested the answer is apparently yes, and unfurled that tale of a 32 year-old native Moroccan woman identified as Faiza M. as evidence. Though married to a French citizen and the mother of their three, French-born children, Faiza M. was denied citizenship on the grounds that she has "adopted a religious practice incompatible with essential values of the French community, particularly the principle of equality of the sexes...