The LATimes on a roll (bankroll that is!): 'Saudi women' promising victory: can now buy lingerie in stores from female salesclerks!'

"... It doesn't sound like much, but in the glacial process of modernization in the tradition-bound kingdom, it's an important step. "This is the beginning of a real social change," Eman Nafjian, one of the new generation of Saudi women's activists, told me over coffee in Riyadh..."