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...Leleng, wiggling his index fingers in demonstration. His wife Wayuni says only 5% of girls wore headscarves in high school when she was growing up. Now it's mandatory, and many women wear the covering even in the privacy of their own homes. "Some people say we should just follow our Indonesian traditions, where women wore revealing clothing," says KPPSI's Hasan. "But many of our traditions are not on the true path of Islam. We must correct that." As for southern Sulawesi's non-Muslim minority, who are required to wear headscarves if they want to enter civil service...
...those who follow Iraq from afar, the daily stories of sectarian slaughter are perplexing. Why are the Shi'ites and Sunnis fighting? Why now? There are several explanations for the timing of the outbreak of hostilities, each tied to a particular interpretation of how events unfolded after the fall of Saddam Hussein: flawed American postwar policies, provocation by foreign jihadis, retaliation by militias like al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, the ineptitude of Iraqi politicians and, lately, Iranian interference. But the rage burning in people like Muslawi and Hussein has much deeper and older roots. It is the product of centuries...
...what I’m doing is challenging.’”Within the department, however, professors and students are supportive and understand the difficult and idiosyncratic demands that creative writing places on students. While critical theses have strictly defined rules and guidelines for writers to follow, creative theses have no such canon. “It’s very difficult to write a creative thesis,” Kincaid says. “With creative writing, it’s very hard to impose rules on yourself. It’s a very hard discipline...
...Kinsella said. Attendees extended warm welcomes to strangers, and kept the conversation light, asking the usual trifecta: Concentration? House? Year? After a few minutes of genuine politeness, the True Lovers regressed into taking good-natured cracks at each other and making inside jokes that were hard to follow. In fact, abstinence was not even mentioned and aside from the hot pink flyers listing ten reasons to wait, it could have been mistaken for a real party. More than anything else, it was a gathering of friends looking for an excuse to hang out and eat some dessert. True to their...
...Since the summit's failure, tensions have been running high. Palestinian extremists responded to the summit's meltdown by sending a suicide bomber on Tuesday into Tel Aviv, Israel's busiest city. The would-be bomber was caught, but police fear that other explosive-laden martyrs will follow now that the chance of peace between Arabs and Israelis is ebbing. Meanwhile, in Nablus, three American women doing aid work were kidnapped by a Palestinian militant who demanded a job and medical treatment after a shooting injury. The three workers were released unharmed several hours later...