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...have mercy on the younger," says Suleiman, "and the younger respect the older." The students seem to make an effort, but cultural isolation is impossible. "My dad will hear the word love when I play my music, and he'll say that's against our religion," says freshman Ryan Ahmad. "So I'll stop for a week. But then one of my friends will start singing some lyric, and I start up again." When freshman Gulrana Syed watches TV, she tries to stick with family shows but gives in to the temptation to watch Fear Factor. "If swearing starts...
...though, perhaps the worst slight of all is being regarded as outsiders. "The students are aware," says Dalila Benameur, head of the social studies department, "that they are perceived as different." Says freshman Gulrana Syed: "It's kind of impossible to blend in wearing a head scarf." Student Ryan Ahmad, whose dad is his toughest music critic, admits, "Americans seem to have more fun. Muslims try to be American, but we don't know how. The cultures are so different." A sense that U.S. life has its own contradictions provides some perspective. Senior Muna Zughayer, noting the use of women...
...Even last week, more than a third of members voted against the reform, even though the government had made concessions to soothe them, including the introduction of an amendment to stipulate that women voting or running for office must abide by Islamic law. Now, Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah can expect an especially warm reception when he travels to Washington next month. The U.S. had been pushing Kuwait, one of its staunchest allies in the Middle East, to allow its female citizens to participate in political life. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the Gulf that...
...FAIYAZUDDIN AHMAD, PRESIDENT...
When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice phoned Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi last week, sources in the U.S. government say she kicked off the conversation with the understatement of the year. "We haven't talked for a while," she said to the onetime Pentagon favorite, who by last year had become a pariah in the halls of Washington. Not so long ago the National Security Council presented the White House with a plan to discredit him titled "Marginalizing Chalabi." He was accused by unnamed intelligence officials of leaking U.S. secrets to Iran. His home in Baghdad was raided...