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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (12671)12/5/1999 1:23:00 PM
From: Edwarda   of 62564
 
Barbara Walters did a story on gender roles in Kuwait several years before
the Gulf War. She noted then that women customarily walked about 10 feet
behind their husbands. She returned to Kuwait recently and observed that the
men now walked several yards behind their wives. Ms. Walters approached one
of the women and said, "This is marvelous. Can you tell the free world just
what enabled women here to achieve this reversal of roles?" "Land mines,"
said the Kuwaiti woman.
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