In Minnesota, schools are closed, mail delivery has stopped and there have been power and gas outages as the region suffers bone-chilling cold. Also, recent headlines about a Saudi woman taken in by Canada after fleeing her country, and a princess of Dubai who tried to flee, bear some resemblance to something that happened more than four decades ago: Saudi Princess Mishaal bint Fahd al Saud was found guilty of adultery when she was 19, in 1977, and she was publicly executed alongside her lover. That and more, in hour one of …