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Your stories about women under Taliban oppression in Afghanistan were heartbreaking [SPECIAL REPORT, Dec. 3]. Denied the most basic human rights, a woman is "owned" first by her father, then by her husband. Her life is only as good as the man who owns her at the moment, and she has absolutely no way of changing her future. Any attempt by the West to free the enslaved women of Afghanistan is not cultural imperialism but a moral imperative. DEBORAH WASSER Little Silver...
These people and thousands of others like them are crafting a new strand of Islam, one that aims to reconcile the basic tenets of the faith - such as social justice and submission to the will of God - with the realities of contemporary European life. Though this process has been under way for some time, the events of Sept. 11 and afterward have lent it new urgency...
...rate of $27 a month (plus the dish), is still more than the $16 for analog cable, digital cable averages $49 a month. EchoStar knows full well that cable rates have gone up 35 percent since 1996, and it knows the cable-operator M.O. - get people hooked up to basic, and then tantalize them with add-ons. That's why it's been aggressively targeting cable-dissatisfied markets with low-end, $9-for-100-channels deals and free dishes and installation...
Money forms another basic root of Hamas' power. Having been sweet-talked into helping with finances, Iran now provides some $20 million to $30 million a year, according to a Western diplomat in Tehran. Cash also flows in from Islamic charities and wealthy private backers in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. Officials around the Arab world acknowledge that their citizens contribute to Hamas, but they tend to justify the group's operations as legitimate resistance to the continued Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. Says Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal: "Someone who is fighting for the liberation...
...eight years ago, I chose denial. If ever you're entitled to be selfish, I thought (and still think), this is it. So I see a good doctor, take my pills most of the time and go about my business. I couldn't tell you some of the most basic things about Parkinson's and how it works. Modern culture may favor confrontation, but we are genetically hard-wired, or at least I am, with a remarkable capacity for denial. It helps, of course, that the symptoms have been mild. Most days for the past eight years I've hardly...