— Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti, who says he was pushed to the ground and beaten by a woman after he admonished her for not complying with strict Islamic dress code.
So two Washington Post reporters headed there to find romance.
— Nora Ephron, in her 1996 Wellesley commencement address, debunking (16 years ahead of time) the Atlantic’s current cover story “Why women still can’t have it all.”
— Max Fisher in The Atlantic online.
Ladies and gentlemen: Viola Davis.
Saudi women got behind the wheel today, flouting a government ban.
Photo by Fayez Nureldine (AFP/Getty)
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A press release in our inbox. For a site promising to “delight and surprise readers with edgy content built around understanding the various parts of a woman’s cycle.”
No.
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