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...been fixed for judgment. "My husband never once told me he had secretly converted to Islam," says Kaliammal, showing off a wall in her apartment dedicated to her husband's mountaineering achievements for the glory of the Malaysian nation. "He was always a Hindu and drank alcohol and ate pork right up to the time he died." His final resting place, though, will depend upon what the court decides-yet one more challenge for a country caught between mosque and state...
...other day, a friend came to visit me with her five year-old daughter. We drank tea, ate apple pie with saffron crust, and discussed the marriages of our mutual acquaintances. As they prepared to leave, the little girl proudly pulled out a cherry-red veil from her purse and tied it on with an innocent flourish. Only the most religiously extreme families force girls that young to wear hejab (as the veil is known in Iran), and I looked at my friend inquiringly. The little girl insists on wearing it, my friend told me; she thinks it makes...
...dining halls,” said Carey W. Hynes ’09. “I don’t see the harm in giving students both options.” But Olivia G. Volkoff ’09, a first-year transfer student from Columbia, who ate with a flexible points plan at her previous college, said she supported keeping Harvard’s unlimited meal plan. “Freshman year, everyone at Columbia is forced to eat in the freshman dining hall. After that, though, everyone gets off the meal plan and eats off campus...
...help me out a bit,” Pagano writes. “I set a rather fancy table up in the courtyard, and left a note for Nen to meet me there at a certain time. And when she showed up, the dinner was all set, and we ate there by candlelight.”Pagano explains that even though it may be a challenge to “mix marriage and education” as both attend graduate school, life would be busy with or without a spouse.“I think if you?...
...Attrition in his department is so severe, Jordan said, that this month's new assistant district attorney is likely to be next month's senior employee. And in what sounded to many in the council chambers like a version of the-dog-ate-my-homework excuse, Jordan testified that pre- Katrina evidence - salvaged, cleaned up and stored in a criminal court basement - is now being tampered with by rats. "Apparently, the rodent problem over at the basement is very serious at this time," he said dryly, to a few groans and chuckles from the assembled crowd...