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...Lawal's boyfriend was also arrested, but because shari'a requires stiff standards of proof for adultery--four reliable witnesses must testify to having seen the sexual act--the case against him was dropped. A hard-line Islamic judge ruled that baby Wasila was proof enough of Lawal's guilt. "We see this as selective application of shari'a against women," says Ugochukwu Okezie, campaign director for Nigeria's Civil Liberties Organization...
...problems - a strategy based on ecotourism encourages governments to ensure that conservation is financially sustainable. But what should be protected, how and for whose benefit? Despite Duffy's sharp criticisms, her lack of practical proposals pointing the way forward makes a journey through these pages seem like a guilt trip...
...know that in other classrooms at Summerbridge, not to mention in the rest of the world, girls act up and boys behave well. But I find myself expending all my energy on my male students, having time to consider my female students only when I feel a flash of guilt looking at them with their hands raised. “I can’t call on you until it’s quiet,” I say. There are activities and reading material I know would work well for the girls, but the boys will have none...
...more typical crises: losing a job, having an annoying neighbor or flirting with someone you shouldn't. The best of the four tales in this collection, "Hawaiian Getaway," features Hillary Chan, a twenty-something child of Asian immigrants who loses her job and starts a downward spiral of guilt and self-loathing. Driven to distraction by a demanding, critical mother and a patronizing, "successful" younger sister, she begins making increasingly nasty prank calls to the payphone outside her window. Strangely, one of these results in a date with a decent guy. Will she see him again? It ends...
...Further violence unfolds with a detached, unsettling inevitability, and by the time Kazuki kills Hidetomo, you're almost relieved. After the murder, he descends into a surreal, Oedipal nightmare of guilt and paranoia, eerily coming to resemble his dead father as he struggles to run the household and the pachinko business. Kazuki is so frazzled he can't even get around to disposing of the corpse; as his mind begins to unravel, he desperately concludes more killing may be necessary to conceal the dead body rotting in a vault filled with gold...