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$\"\"$ <\/a>Thousands of men blocked the road, surrounding the S.U.V. of the chief justice of Pakistan, a national hero for standing up to military rule. As a correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, I knew I couldn\u2019t just watch from behind a car window. I had to get out there.<\/p>\n

So, wearing a black headscarf and a loose, long-sleeved red tunic over jeans, I waded through the crowd and started taking notes: on the men throwing rose petals, on the men shouting that they would die for the chief justice, on the men sacrificing a goat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And then, almost predictably, someone grabbed my buttocks. I spun around and shouted, but then it happened again, and again, until finally I caught one offender\u2019s hand and punched him in the face. The men kept grabbing. I kept punching. At a certain point \u2014 maybe because I was creating a scene \u2014 I was invited into the chief justice\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n

At the time, in June 2007, I saw this as just one of the realities of covering the news in Pakistan. I didn\u2019t complain to my bosses. To do so would only make me seem weak. Instead, I made a joke out of it and turned the experience into a positive one: See, being a woman helped me gain access to the chief justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest of the article and pray and ponder<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"