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Last June, shortly after the French Communist Deputy André G??rin launched the idea for a parliamentary commission on the burka, a Parisian journalism student went in search of the controversial article of clothing. The quest ended in failure: From the cosmopolitan neighborhood of Barbès to that of Belleville, shopkeepers repeatedly insisted that, while they sold plenty of headscarves and the occasional niqab, no clients had ever sought to purchase a burka...

Author: By Judith Surkis | Title: The Tip of the Iceberg | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...public facial dissimulation” admit that the phenomenon is extremely marginal. Initial government intelligence reports named 367 documented cases. And, according to the Ministry of the Interior, no more than 2,000 women in France wear an “integral veil.” But for G??rin and others, these numbers are just the “tip of the iceberg...

Author: By Judith Surkis | Title: The Tip of the Iceberg | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...avatar to Fred Flintstone, but I believe the real similarity here is to Comedy Central’s mercifully short-lived “Shorties Watchin’ Shorties” (you know a show’s good when its title prescriptively drops the gerund “g??), which animated clips of stand-up comedy routines. That’s not the greatest of legacies...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Ricky Gervais' Brings the Funny | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

When he wasn’t busy producing a new album for Justin Bieber, Usher found the time to record one of his own. Much like it’s hard to take teenage protég?? Bieber seriously, Usher’s sixth record, “Raymond v. Raymond,” struggles to make a sophisticated and grown-up statement...

Author: By Thomas J. Snyder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Usher | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

What follows is a predictable love triangle in which Fielding’s protég?? slowly grows closer with Fielding’s girlfriend. But to move us along without waiting for such inconveniences as “character development,” the script decides to just drastically rewrite the personalities of the main cast...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Good Guy | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

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