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Girls Get To Be Girls – Even In Onaiza?

Last month we wrote about a Judge in Saudi Arabia who refused (twice!) to annul a wedding between an 8-year old girl and a 47-year old man. Well times change quickly sometimes.  First, the groom himself agreed to divorce his child bride. So the little girl may get a childhood after all. Yay!

More surprisingly, the Kingdom may be deciding…

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Snippets: Brutality On 18th Street

In 12th Grade, in New York City, in 1983, I was a bike messenger.  It was not just a job, but also extra training for weekend bike races in Central Park, so I loved it.  I got to see little snapshots of a great big city, every day after school. One day, however, I’d just as soon forget: it was…

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