SEATTLE -- The West Valley boys learned Storm is an appropriate nickname for Squalicum. Defenders everywhere each time a West Valley player got the ball anywhere inside the 3-point arc, Squalicum snowed in the Rams on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Class 3A state tourney.
NEW DELHI †As the world gets ready to celebrate International Women’s Day today, tens of thousands of Indian women are struggling just to be born. Experts say around one million female foetuses are being aborted in this country every year.
Is the move to bring down age of marriage justified? Sanju Kumari: The recommendation to lower the age of marriage from 21 to 18 for boys sounds really unsound. How can we expect the teenagers to shoulder the responsibilities that come with marriage?
When Eva Schloss was a child growing up in Amsterdam, Holland, in the 1940s, there was a girl just her age across the street. The two would play together often.
Gene Weingarten's humor column, Below the Beltway, appears every Sunday in The Washington Post magazine. It is syndicated nationally by the Washington Post Writers Group.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai called Saturday on his countrymen to stop forcing their under-aged daughters to marry, especially to men several decades older, and to allow them to be educated.
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