The Evening Sun from Hanover, Pennsylvania • 14

www 9 WWWWWW wwww fc wwwwwwwwwwwww WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWK fwm MMVT I 6 The Evening Sun Sunday, February 1, 2004 I IMtlUMittllli 1 Iraqi women dealing with an uncertain future regulating marriage, divorce, child custody, and inheritance and allow each group to apply its own religious tradition. The decision, which was strongly opposed even within the Governing Council, has not been approved by Bremer, who w'ields a veto. In December, about a dozen women wrote to Bremer saying the coalition created these male-dominated councils and is obligated to redress this discrimination, and correct the failed power structure. Coalition and Governing Council officials then had sever al meetings with womens groups. An advisory committee of Iraqi women was formed to deal with gender issues.

Gynecologist Abood said she will campaign for a quota system to guarantee positions for women in the legislature and government. NI A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A While waiting for a clerk to retrieve some documents, Iraqi lawyer Nidal Jreo, center, relaxes with her son, Mohammed Sahib, 5, and friends, Om Ayat, left, and Busrah Kadom inside her office in the courthouse in Najaf, Iraq. Jreo was appointed in July as the first woman judge in the conservative Shiite Muslim city Najaf. Six months later, the 45-year-old jurist has yet to hear her first case. Continued from B-l clerics have close ties to Iran where they spent years in exile under Saddam.

In some southern cities as well as Shiite enclaves in Baghdad, young male vigilantes organized by mullahs roam the streets enforcing female dress codes. Not all Iraqi women share the concern. Traditional views run strong, even among educated women. It is the right of every Iraqi man and woman to have their religion dictate their personal affairs, said Jinan al-Obeidi, a Shiite municipal council woman in Najaf who opposed Jreos appointment to the bench. It is time for religion to be given the chance to prove its ability to give women their rights.

Ashwaq Sami, a 29-year-old Sunni housewife in Baghdad, wears a veil but says that shouldnt stereotype her as oppressed or backward. She worries that a U.S.-style women's rights would threaten Iraqi culture. I dont want Iraq to be like America she said. All I care about is that whoever rules us is one of us, who understands our culture and our sufferings. Not someone who was in exile living the high life, and then returns to tell us what to do.

The American-led coalition has sought to raise womens consciousness, sponsoring empowerment programs to advise women on setting up small businesses and organizing At this iwjnwtwt if the tWwbts lW, iheiwts cccmw? ts im constitution. Only one woman Public Works Minister Nasreen Berwari serves in the 25-member interim Cabinet. Jreo, a Shiite who has practiced law for 15 of her 45 years, said her experience in Najaf is worrisome. Under Saddam, she said, no one would have dared to stop an appointee from assuming office. She said coalition officials told her they would not override objections to her appointment to protect me from the recklessness of others.

Many professional women viewed with alarm a decision by the Iraqi Governing Council in December to abolish the law discussion groups on womens issues throughout the country. However, many women complain that the coalition has failed to promote womens rights as aggressively as its promises would suggest, and that whatever gains they have made will diminish after the U.S.-led coalition transfers sovereignty to a new Iraqi government by July 1. Only three women were appointed by U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer to the 25-member Iraqi Governing Council, whose membership was determined by ethnicity or religious affiliation rather than gender.

No women were named to the committee drafting Iraqs inter- SJ. Milks, CaKikgwt McdKfll vrKrwr, Assosuwrow JsVrkiD.vMisron TttesHa at jmm ffi-tanIRm (Evaporate liters 'fenik Continued from B-l fUtgttfxraCtoa reytire AnwsKftP Meant Asseewtaew For where to go and what to do, read Out About Thursdays in The Evening Sun i Mfnw'w MvpptVUl Mewwiwil 'Ytyilk ffrivp'jH'iftl JO A A A The best-known is Masquerade by British author Kit Williams, which debuted in 1979, sold more than a million copies and created a firestorm of interest. It also caused some controversy. Williams had hidden an 18-carat gold hare adorned with precious stones somewhere in the United Kingdom. Someone did eventually find the hare but not by solving the puzzle.

Duck Miller isnt offering any such prizes to the person who solves his literary puzzle. The key is a token, he says. The value is in where its located. Id love to say you get a million dollars, but Hes not even necessarily interested in its discovery. His goal, he says, is to teach people to read analytically.

Hes even developed a teachers guide so that the book can be used to study literary analysis in schools. He has no idea how long it will take until someone solves his puzzle. But he says it doesnt matter. You can always figure it out or look for this key, he says. It has few boundaries and it could last forever.

Whistle-pig great outdoors. Or so he says. Keep in mind that Duck Miller likes to surround himself with an aura of mystery, and anything he says -in an interview or in his book -might just be put there to throw readers off the track. A fan of Hemingway, Duck says he wants to make analytical reading more fun. Literature always has something that's not spelled out, he says, that the author tried to convey.

His book includes stories titled Black Heart Cherry, Grandfathers Office, Two Dogs, Full Moon and Winter Land, among others. All are narrated in the first person. It also includes a poem, For the Record, about what else? -whistle-pigs. I'm a fan of culture, he says. I'm fascinated with ideas.

He loves to study people, he says trom very simple people to complex people." The Whistle-Pig" is not the first literary puzzle ev er created. 4 ft0 4 A i 1 i i The dream vacation that you could never afford may be closer than you think. Theres never been a better time to take advantage of the equity in your home than J-f Continued from B-l Beatles Love, love me do You know I love you She loves you Yeah, yeah, yeah Cant buy me love-uv Everybody tells me so Soon after the Beatles invaded America, I told my mom: I want a haircut like Twiggy has. Oi wish Oi was British. In the years to come, the local high school boys started to grow their hair longer.

They threw out their Johnny Cash and Porter Wagoner records. I lived in a country-western home no Beatles 45s in sight. But I sometimes stayed overnight with my rock-n-roll friends. One night, at Onies house, we pinned our skirts up high the way Twiggy wore hers. Then someone pulled out a Beatles record.

The mood turned instantly somber. Paul's dead, you know, Jackie informed us. Hes not! Not Paul. Not the man each of us assumed we would one day marry. Its true, said Jackie.

The proof is on this record. She held up a 45 ith Strawberry Fields Forever" engraved on one side. She put the disk on the portable, pulled the needle over in the middle of Jie record where it normally would have ended, and began pushing the thing backw ards. Listen, did you hear it? she shrieked We played it five more times. with a PeoplesBank Home Equity Loan.

Rates are incredibly low. And if you dive in now, well waive the application and appraisal fees. Why? Because we want to earn your Each of us swore we had heard it: Paul-1-1-1 is-s-s-s dead-d-d-d-d-d Lets call him back, I urged and grabbed Onies Ouija board. Newspaper account October 1969: A Beetle spokesman today dismissed rumors of Paul McCartney death as a load of old rubbish, but fans everywhere continued to search for cryptic messages in songs and on album cos ers. The hoax took off after a Detroit disk jockey played a Beatles record back-wards to reveal what he said were voices chanting Paul is dead.

Paul had not died, but by 1969, the Beatles as a foursome had. Like the decade itself, their songs had moved from a simplicity and innocence to a more worldly, more political flavor. Toward the end. their music just seemed to bubble up and nearly boil over, so intense were its undercurrents. But theirs is the background music for a whole generation -and the generation's children, too.

Step into an elevator, turn on a radio or listen to a television ad, and you're apt to hear them. On those occasions when you stop and actually listen, the sound takes you back. And then you hum a few lines, and your head starts to bob up and dow and you become lost in memories of yes-terday-ay-av-ay. Ann Di iney is The Evening Suns style editor. business.

Were your kind of people, here to help you get more out of life every day. if ti.if tfjfn ti 1 If ry fk iff i I tif i 4 1 1 For qualified horromers on!) Slated rale and APR apply io first hens onl Other rate and term are available Recording fees collected ai settlement SaoMxnoe fee collected rnhen loan paid. Loan-To-Value art to exceed 90 of tax as segment or fdffi of certified appraisal Minimum loan amount of $2f Ono tn ne Ion proceeds. Payment must to automatically deducted from a PeoplesBank checking account to obtain stated rae kPR subject to change alter amount is opened tf pas merit is no iorerr deducted from PeoplesBank checking account Pmm insurance required. Title insurance required for loans osrr SI50 000 Monthly pa mem is $10 8 for e.h WW bombed for 120 months Tns ts a limited time offer that mas to withdrawn at am tin i a.