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...France you're free to show yourself but not to dress modestly." AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, on an audiotape broadcast on the Arabic television channel al-Arabiya, condemning France for imposing a ban on head scarves in schools...
...happy sea of gay newlyweds. Dozens of small groups were strewn randomly on the mayor's balcony, on the grand staircase, under the echoing rotunda modeled on the U.S. Capitol. Each group offered a similar emotional tableau: the couple beaming with pride, the earnest volunteer officiator in casual dress, the distracted children, the supportive friends wielding cameras or holding up cell phones so parents could hear...
...Khamenei is also a pragmatist. Although he has allowed pro-democracy politicians to be crushed, he has shied away from stifling reform urges altogether. Satellite TV, Internet access, expanded political debate, looser restrictions on women's dress and mixing of the sexes are reform-movement achievements that Khamenei has allowed to stand. He has presided over the most significant opening to the outside world since the revolution. In December, with Khamenei's approval, the government signed a protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency allowing inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities--a sea change from the republic's long standoff...
...there's no p.r. trick powerful enough to spin away a blunder (a drunken wedding in Las Vegas, say), try hiring photographer David LaChapelle to dress you up and transform you into someone else completely (Jean Harlow, say). To promote BRITNEY SPEARS' upcoming concert tour, which will air on Showtime, the cable channel commissioned a glamorous new portrait of the singer--very demure, very classy. Next hurdle: getting people to believe it's Britney...
...Boston Globe and The Washington Times all devoted editorial space to discussing the issue. The Economist was inspired enough to write an article arguing that the destruction of the sculpture was compelling evidence of American prudishness. “What is political correctness but Victorian prudery in modern dress?” asked the article’s author. The infamous snow phallus picture on TheCrimson.com had over 100,000 hits—the most in the website’s history—and even Playboy requested the photo for its magazine...