Word: elegantes
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I attended afternoon prayers at Buraydah's main mosque, a new and elegant structure aglow with dozens of steel-and-glass chandeliers. The imam led the congregation in 'qunoot' prayers, a special invocation inserted into the regular 'namaaz' and until recently banned by the government.
Filling in a bingo card next to me, Yumi Lee ’04 tells me she has some reservations about the event. She relates story about a male friend who had asked her help in preparing for the bingo night. “He said he wanted to look...
The image of hands-off supervision would be easier to sustain if not for the emergence of an exile so favored by the Pentagon. Chalabi has been preparing for this moment almost from the day his wealthy, politically prominent family was forced to flee after Iraq's monarchy fell in...
Padua likes to keep itself and its treasures hidden in plain sight. Evidence that the town doesn't like to brag: Locals modestly (and cheekily) refer to Padua as the city that has a saint without a name, a field with no grass and a café with no doors...
The allied bombs that hit Vienna's Albertina Palace in March 1945 destroyed nine magnificent neoclassical staterooms and reduced stretches of richly decorated façade to rubble. The museum's priceless art collection - including masterpieces by Michelangelo and Rembrandt - had been moved by the Nazis to safe storage in...