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...sense of Muslim family values. That's why Mohammad (Mo) Suleiman sent his daughter Samia, 18, to Universal. "Family means the older 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...
...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 as sex objects...
...Last year I felt the pressure and I got frustrated,” Stefanchik said. “This year, I was really relaxed at the plate. My dad gave me some great advice: to take a deep breath and enjoy...
John Brumbach, a part-time video editor and stay-at-home dad in Omaha, Neb., found himself going overboard soon after he took over the home kitchen for his family of five. He and his wife, a cable-company marketing director, promptly gained 10 lbs. each. The culprit: butter. Brumbach now sees his job as keeping the family healthy and happy. He flips through cooking magazines and watches the Food Network, then adapts recipes or "change[s] them drastically" to suit the family's palates. "I work with my kids to find out what their taste will tolerate," he says...
...every dad finds himself in the kitchen under such glamorous circumstances or because he loves it. Sometimes duty calls, plain and simple, as it did for Ronald Inniss, a high school guidance counselor in Boston and father of three grown kids who often come home to roost...