Word: reforms
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...best hope for securing equal rights for women lies. Egyptian activists are quick to point out that the divorce amendments did not come at the expense of religious law, but were successful precisely because they were justified in the context of religious teachings. Indeed, a crux of the reform movement was its ability to stave off the objections of religious hard-liners by appealing to passages in the Shariah that discuss the inherent equality of men and women...
Such an approach is not without its drawbacks, however. The reforms only passed with the concession that women, upon divorce, must return to their husbands any property they received at marriage--a proviso that was justified by the prophet Muhammad's decision to allow a woman to leave her marriage if she returned a garden she had been given by her husband. Moreover, men will retain the right to appeal a divorce indefinitely. Yet while such compromises may be undesirable from an purely egalitarian standpoint, it would be apt for those with a vested interest in change to realize that...
There have been many suggestions made about the Core over the years, ranging from "trash it!" to "reform it" to "we like it just the way it is" (stand up if you're in the last category and see how many are standing with you...), but nothing has really changed. Yes, more classes have been added, and there are a more concentration classes counting for credit these days, but the Core looks pretty much as it did when I was a first-year...
Last fall, she negotiated a health maintenance organization reform package with the governor. She then sponsored a measure in the assembly giving patients the right to sue their HMOs under certain circumstances...
...assembly, Kuehl worked on health care reform, water pollution and child support, among other issues...