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...That's a problem in poorer schools like Euless. This year only 10 girls auditioned for 16 slots on the team. To ease the financial burden, the school decided to buy uniforms and lend them out. Many junior-high and middle schools, conscious of Texas' conservative values, impose a dress code for uniforms, requiring skirts that fall three inches below the fingertips and tops that cover the stomach and shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Push To Be Perfect | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

...continued to recognize the legitimacy of the House of Saud as Saudi Arabia's political leadership. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, he worked with the U.S. government to encourage a jihad against the Red Army. During Fahd's reign, the country imposed a stricter dress code for women, continued to ban women from driving and spent billions exporting Wahhabi teachings and building mosques throughout the Islamic world. The policy backfired not only with the September 11 attacks in the U.S. but two years later inside the Kingdom itself, when Bin Laden's organization started a jihad against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia's King Fahd Dies | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

Nicole was decked out in a designer dress and glittering in borrowed jewelry, including an imposing watch. Event staffers had helped with her hair and makeup, just one of the examples of the gracious help Corriero said she had encountered...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Corriero Gets Star Treatment in L.A. | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

Nicole was decked out in a designer dress and glittering in borrowed jewelry, including an imposing watch. Event staffers had helped with her hair and makeup, just one of the examples of the gracious help Corriero said she had encountered...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: It E-S-P-Isn't Corriero | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

...sound of sirens faded and the smell of burning dissipated, the least planned, most messy, least lovable and most loved city in the world got on with what, in summer, it does best--preparing for a weekend's gardening, setting up pints of beer, snapping on a spaghetti-strap dress for a night's clubbing. On the steps of St. Pancras church, close to both the King's Cross bomb and the destroyed bus, a card had been placed among the bunches of flowers laid in remembrance of the victims. "The people who did this," it read, "should know that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rush Hour Terror | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

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