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...moors ruled Andalucia in southern Spain from the 8th to the 12th centuries, and among their more sybaritic legacies are the hammams (bathhouses) found in the city of Granada. They were originally inspired by Roman baths, but the Moorish versions took opulence to new heights - featuring stuccoed alcoves, lavish geometric mosaics and horseshoe arches. The functions of the hammams weren't strictly utilitarian either: they were used by both sexes as places to drink tea and socialize as well as to maintain personal hygiene. For cloistered Muslim women, a morning at the hammam was a welcome chance to groom, gossip...
...8th Suffolk District, in the seat vacated by Paul C. Demakis ’75, Democrat Marty Walz received 75 percent of the vote to Republican Richard L. Babson’s 23 percent and America First Party’s Thomas White’s 2 percent...
Walz will represent the 8th Suffolk District, which includes Cambridgeport and MIT, as well as the Boston neighborhoods of Back Bay, Beacon Hill and West...
...8th Suffolk District, Democrat Marty Walz is running against Republican Richard L. Babson and America First Party candidate L. Thomas White for the state senate seat vacated by Paul C. Demakis ’75, who did not seek re-election. The district includes MIT, Cambridgeport and Area 4 as well as Boston’s Back Bay and Beacon Hill neighborhoods...
...gang of Arab militants” against Darfur’s “black African” population. The reality is far more complex. The African Union itself (which would be among the first groups to condemn a genocide committed against fellow Africans) states in a July 8th resolution that the conflict in Darfur “can not be defined as genocide.” Why not? Because the facts on the ground do not support the claim that one ethnic group is systematically wiping out another--the violence in Darfur is a civil war and a separatist...