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...India's "cash-for-fatwas" scandal broke out last weekend when a TV channel broadcast a sting operation that showed several Indian Muslim clerics allegedly taking, or demanding, bribes in return for issuing fatwas, or religious edicts. The bribes, some of which were as low as $60, were offered by undercover reporters wearing hidden cameras over a period of six weeks. In return for the cash, the clerics appear to hand out fatwas written in Urdu, the language used by many Muslims in Pakistan and India, on subjects requested by the reporters. Among the decrees issued by the fatwas: that...
...culture that has emerged here since the Islamic Revolution. Forced to cover their bodies in Islamic dress, women focused on beautifying what remained visible: their faces. That turned Iran into the nose job capital of the world, and shaped a generation receptive to elective surgery, in particular procedures that broke with tradition: be it the classically hooked Iranian nose, or the female ritual of childbirth. Once having one's nose carved became as routine as a dental cleaning, Iranians simply grew to feel at home with non-medical surgery...
...McDreamy, in case you haven't heard, is the nickname for Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Demsey), the handsome, married neurosurgeon who broke intern Meredith Grey's heart. Finn (Chris O'Donnell), aka McVet, is a shaggy-haired veterinarian she's been dating to get over McDreamy. In the season finale of the show Drs. Shepherd and Grey unleashed their passion in an exam room of Seattle Grace Hospital. Now McDreamy wants her back. Or does he? And whom will Meredith choose? Producers have been frustratingly mum on the subject. "In the season premiere a relationship will...
...Pope's PR Machinery Broke Down If it was so easy to foresee that Benedict's remarks about Islam would set off a furor, why didn't the Vatican anticipate...
...Pope's PR Machinery Broke Down If it was so easy to foresee that Benedict's remarks about Islam would set off a furor, why didn't the Vatican anticipate...