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Repressive governments of whatever stripe distrust the sexual impulse because it is, at base, anarchic, idiosyncratic and in some sense ungovernable. The woman in the park in Tehran, and many other people across the world, are helping erode the cold bonds of authoritarianism and oppression.
The Middle East peace process, frozen to the point of lifelessness, may be starting to thaw.
What does it mean to be your brother's keeper? Lessons from the Cleveland kidnappings