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...Harvard University president to speak to them and neglect to mention that the program is in violation of our anti-discrimination code would be a great omission and a real shame,” said Zafran, who collaborated with his Republican counterparts in April on an Undergraduate Council resolution designed to increase recognition for ROTC...
...draw the line at flip-flops. the prevailing dress code at my office and those of many white collar workers in the U.S. could be defined as business casual--if any of us knew what the heck that meant. My employee handbook offers no guidelines, so I'm left with my own interpretation: no nylons (like 39% of American women, I haven't worn a pair in more than a year), but then again, no flip-flops (because I respect my colleagues enough to shield them from my unsightly toes...
...according to human resources trade group SHRM. And the trend has left corporate America a sartorial mishmash. At opposite ends of the spectrum are Lehman Bros., which has reinstated its daily-suit mandate, and IBM, which has tossed its famously conservative dress code altogether. Last summer the U.S. Commerce Department banned employee flip-flops. This summer Texas A&M University is urging its staff to dress "comfortably" so the school can ease up on air-conditioning...
...telling that the Secret Service code name for the press secretary was "Matrix." As McClellan notes, a large part of his job was - much like the villains in the Keanu Reeves film - to project the reality the White House wished the world to see, regardless of whether it actually existed...
...teammates, 18-year-old Fatima Ahmed, recently graduated from Noor-Ul Iman, and is a freshman at Columbia University. (She still helps out with coaching, and was eligible to play in the Islamic Games.) Ahmed says that dress code in college teams is only half the battle, and that more deep-seated cultural changes are required for more Muslim girls in America to even think about sports beyond high school. Ahmed, whose family comes from Pakistan, cannot imagine playing basketball in her country of origin. She says that many Muslim parents from conservative countries still find it unacceptable for their...