Monday, Sept 26

After looking and browsing over the front page of the NYT this morning, I decided to check out the World section to see what was going on outside of the US. It featured an article about Saudi Arabia granting women the right to vote and run for office, which I thought was really interesting because this is a huge change for the country and its citizens. There were a few articles about the continuous struggle and rebellion going on in Libya, one titled "Former Rebels' Rivalries Hold Up Governing in Libya", and this one caught my eye because of the introduction. It presented the three points to be discussed in the article right at the very beginning of the story, and because I've been following the distress in Libya, I really wanted to read this article. It did strike me that the amount of positive news in the World section was very limited. Besides the article about women in Saudi Arabia getting the right to vote, there was only one article that I came across that seemed somewhat positive news. The article was about the death of Wangari Maathi, a Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate at 71 years old. It discussed her involvement in issues and movements like anticorruption, human rights, and so much more. Her accomplishments are endless and from this article it is clear she was a strong, brave woman.