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...sentence dismissed by an Islamic appeals court in another state, in part because she was accused of an act of adultery--she had said it was rape--that preceded the institution of extreme shari'a there. In Lawal's case the law was passed before she had the affair...
...above her breasts." Court-appointed officials or ordinary citizens then pelt the accused with stones large enough to cause pain but not large enough to kill immediately. Last year Iranian newspapers reported that Maryam Ayoubi, 30, was stoned to death in Tehran for murdering her husband and having an affair with a younger man. Another woman was stoned to death for appearing in a pornographic video...
...From the beginning, the public's infatuation with Diana played like an ill-fated love affair: She made us work hard for a few peeks at candor, and we loved her even more for her unavailability. For all her claims of reticence, and despite her famous blush, Princess Diana was hardly camera-shy. She knew exactly how to work the lens, and over the years learned to make it conform to her many moods: flirtatious, sullen, playful, frustrated. Her face was famously kaleidoscopic - full of life, constantly changing. It was this ever-percolating energy that made her such...
Borer's groundbreaking approach to statecraft was not an unqualified success - he was recalled to Bern when a Swiss paper published details of an alleged affair with a topless model. Though he denied the story from the beginning and has since received a sizable out-of-court settlement from the tabloid, which admitted fabricating the story, he quit government and remains bitter over his treatment. "I will never go back under this minister," he says when asked if he would ever return to the diplomatic corps. "But fortunately ministers change...
...course, the best way to conserve energy and reduce pollution would be to phase out cars in favor of mass transportation. But let's face it: that's not going to happen. People want a private, comfortable way to get around, and so our love affair with the automobile is as hot as ever. More than 17 million cars are sold each year in the U.S. alone, and demand is surging in developing countries such as China, where sales are expected to grow from 600,000 in 2001 to 2 million...