Kathleen Peratis
By Kathleen Peratis
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News ‘Honor’ Killings: Our Silence Dishonors Us
Even by the debased standards of honor killings, what happened in Multar, Pakistan, three weeks ago was especially gruesome. There, Nazir Ahmed slit the throat of Muqadas, his 25-year-old stepdaughter, whom he suspected of adultery. That by itself is barely worth an inch of space, let alone a headline. But Ahmed’s deed made it all…
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News ‘Honor’ Killings: Our Silence Dishonors Us
Even by the debased standards of honor killings, what happened in Multar, Pakistan, three weeks ago was especially gruesome. There, Nazir Ahmed slit the throat of Muqadas, his 25-year-old stepdaughter, whom he suspected of adultery. That by itself is barely worth an inch of space, let alone a headline. But Ahmed’s deed made it all…
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Opinion A Cut Above?
Nauseating stories of what goes on in meatpacking plants — from those in Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” in 1906 to Eric Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation” in 2002 — have caused us to pass up, if only temporarily, the occasional steak or hot dog. One year, I even forwent turkey on Thanksgiving. But while our stomachs…
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Opinion Serving Justice By Not Publicly Serving Justices
There are no daily front-page stories. There are no slick public relations campaigns touting or trashing potential candidates. And there are no public hearings on nominees’ fitness to serve. In Israel, the selection process for new Supreme Court justices unfolds behind closed doors, and information made public — even about the identity of the candidates…
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Opinion When Kabul Came to Canada, and the Rabbis Fought To Make Shariah the Law of the Land
So busy have we been worrying that women in Iraq and Afghanistan are losing ground to officially sanctioned Shariah courts with power to control much of what matters in their lives — marriage, divorce, support, inheritance — that we hardly noticed that the ground under as many as 150,000 Muslim women in Canada has been…
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Opinion Prostituting the Constitution
Let’s say you run an agency administering governmental disaster relief funds and, after a big hurricane, you are told you no longer will be permitted to administer funds unless you publicly announce that you are opposed to gay marriage — whether or not you actually oppose it, whether or not you even have an opinion….
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Opinion Judging Women By Their Merits
Does it matter that there will not be two women on the United States Supreme Court? Would it matter if there were none? Sexual politics heated up over the last two weeks as President Bush came ever closer to naming his choice to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, whose retirement takes effect, by its terms,…
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Opinion The Price of Multi-payer Health Care
A memorable moment in the 1997 movie “As Good As It Gets” comes when the protagonist played by Helen Hunt, a hard-working waitress and mother of an asthmatic little boy, loses it when she learns that her health insurer will not pay for a doctor-advised diagnostic test. She explodes: “Those f—king HMO bastard pieces of…
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