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bulletin will have to announce that ‘the President
and baby are doing well.”“
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Opinion polls were conducted on this particular
issue in 1987 in the U.S. Reuter reported from
Washington that according to a poll conducted for
a women’s rights group, nearly one third of
American voters believed men to be better suited
than women to the role of U.S. President. The
study released by the National Women’s Political
Caucus (NWPC) said only 8 percent of those
polled believed a woman could do better than a
man in the White House, 40 percent said there was
no inherent difference between the sexes, and 31
percent believed men made better presidents. The
poll, conducted by the Washington-based
Hickman-Maslin political research firm, showed
that women were credited with being more
capable of dealing with social issues, such as
poverty, health care, education, drug abuse, and
civil rights.
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The Persian emperor Chosroes died during the life
of the Prophet. His courtiers crowned Chrosroes’
daughter queen. On hearing this news, the Prophet
