Word: ganges
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...divorce thee” three times—but the same does not hold true for a woman who tries to divorce from her husband. Elsewhere, women are not permitted outdoors without an escort. And in the peripheries of the Muslim world, women are often held responsible, sometimes through gang rape, for crimes alleged to have been committed by their kinsmen.This is all to say that those pervasive stereotypes are premised in reality, and their largest promoters are not campus publications like The Salient, but Muslim leaders committing and condoning barbarous acts in the name of Islam. Critics in print...
...Here I is," squeaked the famous Our Gang character a few moments later, before dropping into a baritone so deep I thought it was James Earl Jones. "Farina, Stymie and I only spoke that way in the movies because white people wrote the scripts," Buckwheat explained. "Our parents and teachers would never let us get away with speaking anything but proper English when we weren't working. The Kingfish usually speaks properly too, but he's hoping that since Black English is back in vogue, he can make a comeback...
...humor, he asks lots of questions about SAT vocabulary and allusions to the likes of 1950s X-ray glasses constructed out of cardboard and a feather. He watches episodes five or six times, laughing progressively more at each new viewing. In addition to stretching his cerebrum, Peter and the gang inspire him to pack it with particularly knee-slapping scenes and to reenact them for anyone willing to listen. And since his friends tirelessly reference TV and movies, he now feels more comfortable being social via the show’s ideas. Finally, with a new eye for absurdity...
...confronting Israeli soldiers when the official Palestinian military fled. But the group ran its refugee camps, towns and villages as gangster fiefs. With the Israelis gone, locals say it has increasingly turned to racketeering and extortion. Despite Abbas' ban on the public display of weapons, members of the gang can still be seen on Gaza's streets, openly toting their M-16 and AK-47 assault rifles. And Abu Samhadana has become a strident critic of Abbas and his henchmen, whom he views as ineffectual. "The reason for the chaos is the weakness of the Palestinian Authority," he says...
...some of the most vicious" in the state's history. Sims and Underwood were also charged with rape in connection with another attack on immigrants. Some 20 homes in nearby Hispanic communities have been invaded in recent months, and officials say these suspects may be part of a gang targeting workers who, without papers to open bank accounts, carry large amounts of cash...