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In September the Economist excerpted an interview with the chairman of Chechnya’s Islamic supreme court that originally ran in a Russian magazine. Interviewer: “[Chechnya’s president] has said that touching a woman is, for Chechens, the worst crime of all. Even when doing traditional dancing, the Chechen male must not touch his female partner. But under sharia [Muslim] law, [as punishment] you beat young girls and cut their hair off.” Supreme court chairman: “We don’t beat them with our bare hands. We use sticks.”
In a survey published in an Italian psychology journal in July, 70 percent of the people polled admitted to telling between five and ten lies a day. The most common lie was “Don’t worry; it’s all been taken care of,” but the traditional “I’ll always love you” and “How nice to see you” ran close behind.
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