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...continuing clampdown on reformers has left Saudi modernizers distraught. "If you have a society draped with religion, of course you will reach this point of extremism," says Turki al-Hamad, a Saudi novelist and newspaper columnist. The voices of moderation, al-Hamad says, have almost no public spaces in the kingdom--no broadcast networks, no radio stations and few mosques--in which to voice their views. The extremists, meanwhile, feel no such constraints. The day before an attack by al-Qaeda militants on a compound in Khobar in late May that killed 22 people, the imam at the mosque...
...could get some rich friends to finance a group of Nieves' fellow employees--perhaps those who had returned to work without health insurance--call them Ribbon Workers for Truth and make this poor woman's life a trial. (As it is, I've acted as a Not-So-Swift Columnist for Truth by revealing some of the more problematic details of her story...
...elite of politics, media and diplomacy; in Washington. A descendant of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the U.S., she grew up in privileged society, dining with Presidents and Prime Ministers. Widowed in 1960, the next year she married her first husband's college roommate, newspaper columnist Joseph Alsop (whom she divorced in 1978). President Kennedy visited their home on Inauguration night, and again in 1962 to meet with two Soviet experts just before the showdown with Moscow over the Cuban missile crisis...
...columnist Andrew Sullivan's essay on the Senate's defeat of the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage [July 26]: For anyone to claim that the weddings of same-sex couples somehow tarnish the sanctity of marriage is absolutely ridiculous. How sacred is marriage when two people can be wed by an Elvis impersonator in a Las Vegas drive-through chapel? If gay marriage is such a threat and heterosexual marriage is so sacred, why isn't the religious right working to create a constitutional amendment to ban divorce, thus preserving the sanctity of marriage forever? LOUIS FUENTES San Antonio, Texas...
...spent locked up under inhumane conditions. Stewart is going to prison because she lied about a transaction aimed at making her even richer. Mandela risked his life and was imprisoned because he fought against apartheid. To make any comparison is insulting. Nathalie Greifenstein Mainz, Germany Division Over Unions Re columnist Andrew Sullivan's essay on the Senate's defeat of the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage [July 26]: For anyone to claim that the weddings of same-sex couples somehow tarnish the sanctity of marriage is absolutely ridiculous. How sacred is marriage when two people...