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...Dumb Is as Dumb Does Re Verbatim [Jan. 11]: Before attacking General Anthony Cucolo in Iraq as "dumb" for dictating that female soldiers who become pregnant - and the male soldiers who impregnate them - be punished, perhaps National Organization for Women president Terry O'Neill should have studied military law. It prohibits male and female service members from having sex in a combat zone. Accountability may be a foreign word to O'Neill, but it's not to the vast majority of our brave servicemen and -women. Major Paul Johnson, U.S. Marine Corps Crofton...
...were firing their Kalashnikovs so close by that I was certain I could hear the bullet casings cascading down onto the roof of the tent. A crowd of women swaddled in black cupped their hands over their veiled mouths to emit a wave of high-pitched ululations - a call of celebration familiar across the Middle East. The 16-year-old bride, draped in a sparkly white gown, henna tattoos running up her arms, sat silent and tearful as she prepared to meet her groom for the first time. I hadn't meant to spend the night in this tiny village...
...weddings, as in most other aspects of life in this deeply conservative country, women are sequestered from men. Inside the house of Habiba's sister, the women of Al-Qaeda were loud and gregarious, donning slinky gowns and makeup for the all-women wedding party and passing out khat, a mildly narcotic leaf that most of the country chews. Like many other Yemenis, they were strongly opposed to U.S. policy in the Middle East, and the political commentary flowed easily as they offered me perfume and sweets and begged me to show them "Western" dancing when the party got going...
OUMEIMA NACERI, a 19-year-old Muslim, on a French proposal that would bar women from wearing full-body, face-covering robes in public...
GOEL RATZON, an Israeli polygamist who was arrested Jan. 14 on suspicion of enslavement, sexual abuse and rape. Ratzon, who issued the statement during the filming of a 2009 documentary, lives with at least 17 women and has reputedly fathered as many as 89 children...