Wednesday, September 10, 2003

The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, as the religious police are officially known, lists the dolls on a section of its Web site devoted to items deemed offensive to the conservative Saudi interpretation of Islam.

go Barbie go
"Olympia won best film in the 1936, defeating, among other contenders, Walt Disney's "Snow White."

"His key role in the development of thermonuclear weapons (the hydrogen bomb) is well-known, but he made extraordinary contributions to the development of submarine-launched ballistic missiles (the cornerstone of nuclear deterrence) and missile defense," the statement added..

Long and interesting lives these two who left on the same day....