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...fate would have it, this happened to be “Head Body Limbs,” a 1967 piece by Franz Erhard Walther made up of a large rectangular piece of cream-colored canvas with its two back corners hooked into the wall and the rest of the cloth piled in an untidy heap on the floor. The label said this was another piece I could touch, and I tried to determine what I was supposed to do with it. Only this was ten times worse than looking at “Wave...
...reached down and grabbed one of the corners of cloth, lifting it up. “Is this what you’re supposed to do?” The guard came over to help, grabbing the opposite corner. “Yeah, like this,” she said, lifting up her corner to form a U-shape. “But I think you might need more people.” “Oh, right. Of course?...
...Moderate religious teachers acknowledge that some of their fellow ustaz are pushing their students to martyrdom. But they say it is almost impossible to prevent. "I have 300 students," says Syed Daud, a genial 55-year-old ustaz who wears a traditional white cloth turban and runs a school in the countryside near the town of Yala. "But how can you stop five of them being lured away by people who promise they'll go to heaven or won't be hurt by bullets...
...other hand, many women also choose to wear the chador, a large black piece of cloth draped over the entire body. In dressing so modestly, these women communicate an image of deep religiousness and support of the Islamic government...
...attack last year she fled with her four children and spent eight months hiding from the Janjaweed, walking from village to village until she found refuge in a camp. Now, one year later, she recalls watching Janjaweed fighters on a rampage deciding whom to kill. A fighter unwrapped swaddling cloth and rolled a newborn baby onto the dirt. The baby was a girl, so they left her. Then the Janjaweed spotted a 1-year-old boy and decided he was a future enemy. In front of a group of onlookers, a man tossed the boy into the air as another...