Disce aut Discede

"That's what I'm dealing with," Princess Reema—who'd listened diplomatically to the young woman and offered a pragmatic counterargument from an employer's point of view—told me after the girl left the room. "Here, the words feminist, radical, activist, liberal, empowerment are not useful to my goals. I'll lose half my audience." To effect any enduring change in a culture that largely prides itself on resisting it, Princess Reema says she must simultaneously invigorate and soothe, while being careful not to alienate conservative thinkers by wielding her ambition too aggressively. In some ways, she's walking the same line as female professionals everywhere.

“The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline is shifting course in Nebraska and will withdraw lawsuits seeking to gain access to the property of landowners who oppose the project, the company announced Tuesday.TransCanada Inc., the developer, said it would abandon its efforts to invoke eminent domain through the courts and would reapply for state approval despite having received the go-ahead from former Gov. Dave Heineman in 2013.”

Most of Syria has broken up along ethnic lines. But in Rojava, members of the Arab and Assyrian minorities are deliberately included.

As the noted religion writer Kenneth Briggs told me: “People here are ardently projecting a lot of things onto this pope, including a liberal new day for the church. But there hasn’t been any change in the moral teachings. It’s to Francis’ credit, I guess, that he gets credit for things he hasn’t done.”

The company, founded by the Nazis before World War II, is governed through an unusual hybrid of family control, government ownership and labor influence. Even by German standards, “Volkswagen stands apart,” said Markus Roth, a professor at Philipps-University Marburg and an expert in European corporate governance. “It’s been a soap opera ever since it started.”

Also, it's Delia*s, not Delia's, like duh. Get it right NYT!