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...overseas-educated aid worker partially protects her from the beating Osema received. But when Nazir shakes hands with a Western man, she looks around furtively. It is the same motion countless Afghan women make every day, the rapid adjusting of veils to cover their faces or the eyes quickly downcast when men enter the room. To help empower women, Nazir runs workshops that include reading the Koran, Islam?s holy book. "If women can read the Koran themselves," she says, "they will learn there is nothing in Islam that says women do not have the same rights...
...overseas-educated aid worker partially protects her from the beating Osema received. But when Nazir shakes hands with a Western man, she looks around furtively. It is the same motion countless Afghan women make every day, the rapid adjusting of veils to cover their faces or the eyes quickly downcast when men enter the room. To help empower women, Nazir runs workshops that include reading the Koran, Islam's holy book. "If women can read the Koran themselves," she says, "they will learn there is nothing in Islam that says women do not have the same rights...
...Leverett House, hoping to find someone to swipe me in. It was dark. I was a sophomore, just about to turn 19. A young girl on the streets, with music blaring out of Quincy House and small groups passing by under the streetlights, their faces oddly lit and eyes downcast. That was the scene. That’s when it happened. I asked a passer-by to swipe me in. She looked at me and asked, “Can I see your...
Such sentiments are common. Every word Koizumi speaks is golden. Whether celebrating with a champion sumo wrestler, tossing a baseball back and forth with President Bush, or commiserating with leprosy victims mistreated for decades by the government, Koizumi has touched a downcast nation. A record label has released a CD of his favorite Elvis hits. There's a mint-flavored Koizumi chewing gum. Last week stores started selling a coffee-table book with snapshots of Koizumi in a bathrobe, Koizumi reading, Koizumi playing baseball, Koizumi eating noodles. "The whole country is depressed," says Masaaki Nagamoto, 45, a law clerk shopping...
...coming on through increasingly popular trance music, all-night raves and 1960s-inspired pop that is flooding the airwaves with lyrics like these from Japan's band of the moment, Love Psychedelico: "Happy life, hippie style," goes the song, which is all wah-wah guitar and slippery riffs. "Downcast days, free ride on a dream...