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High life

Why don’t any of the sisterhood take up the banner of poor Noor Hussain’s wife?

Perhaps they're too busy defending the awful Jill Abramson

31 May 2014

9:00 AM

31 May 2014

9:00 AM

 New York

Here’s a question for you loyal readers: if a hubby asks his wife to cook him a hearty meal of goat meat and she serves him lentils instead, is he within his rights to beat her to death with a stick, as a New Yorker who is on trial this week did? Mind you, Noor Hussain is not a native Noo Yawker, he comes from Pakistan.

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