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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47994)	3/8/2005 2:59:09 AM
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Around 500 Kuwaiti activists, mostly women, demonstrated outside parliament on Monday to demand female suffrage amidst tensions in the Gulf Arab state over a government drive to grant women political rights. “Women’s rights now,” chanted the crowd, which included women dressed in abayas, or traditional long black cloaks. Some of the demonstrators wore veils over their faces. “Our democracy will only be complete with women,” said a placard written in Arabic. “We are not less, you are not more. We need a balance, open the door,” said one written in English. The crowd later attended a parliamentary session which approved a state request for a committee to speed up reviewing a bill allowing women to vote and run for parliament. “In all Muslim countries from Indonesia to Morocco, voting and running for office are among women’s rights but we in Kuwait alone say ‘No’ ... Is it possible that 1 billion Muslims are wrong and we in Kuwait are right,” lawmaker Mohammed al-Saqr said to applause from female activists in the public gallery. reuters

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47994)	3/9/2005 3:43:12 AM
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Idea Of The Day-Many a time,… from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up. Terence - Eunuchus. Act v. Sc. 2, 34. (873.)

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47994)	3/10/2005 4:07:46 AM
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Today in history-March 10: 241 BC - Rome defeated Carthage in the Battle of the Aegates Islands, ending the First Punic War. 1831 - The French Foreign Legion was established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria. 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made his first successful telephone call. 1952 - Forbidden by law to seek re-election, former President Fulgencio Batista staged a coup d'état to resume control in Cuba. 2000 - The NASDAQ stock index peaked at 5048.62, the high point of the dot-com boom.