As Tunisia's prime minister, Hamadi Jebali, recently acknowledged, although the dictatorship has been toppled, "the whole system has not yet been overturned".
In these pages she writes with poise and polish, using her reportorial eye to create a fictional world that feels like a fun-house mirror of journalism from the late '90s, that hinge moment when the Internet had just begun to rattle newspapers but had not yet completely overturned them.
In South Carolina on Wednesday, a Charleston county judge issue a marriage license to one couple, despite the state's ban not yet being officially overturned.
The bus was carrying 43 Egyptians and a driver whose nationality is not yet known when it overturned, Mena, Egypt's state news agency, reported.
He said he could not yet say what the prospects for overturning existing convictions were, nor guess how many convicts in prisons might have cases matching the pattern of the tainted traffic stop.
Contador could still appeal through the Swiss courts to have the suspension overturned, but it is not yet clear what his intentions are.
There are more women wearing headscarves (though not yet at university, since the constitutional court in June 2008 overturned a parliamentary law repealing the ban).
And on Wednesday, the board voted 38 to 2, with one abstention, to recommend that the city overturn the contract, which has not yet been registered at the city comptroller's office.
It has not yet complied with the order, but it has not tried to overturn it, as it might easily have done.
Judge Chapman's formal recommendation that the convictions be overturned has to be approved by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which has not yet acted.
