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...George Washington’s birthday, a little late. We all get together, and the kids do skits that, while maybe not so accurate, are always a good time.” Forman’s daughter is part of the group as well, dressing up in colonial garb and running onto the field to tend to the dead each year. “Amongst kids of a certain age group, it seems to be something of a status symbol in this area to be involved with the Minute Men,” says Forman. “She?...
...Texas bow,” she says. But she says the bow (which she calls the “Full Court Bow”) is very hard. Not only is it difficult to rise from the floor, bowers are also hampered by their heavy dresses and hoop skirts. Their garb acts like a suction and pins them to the floor. But when done right, she says, “It’s supposed to look like you are melting to the floor and acknowledging the people you are bowing to gracefully...
...burka, or more correctly the chadari, has long been traditional wear for Afghan women in the countryside and in conservative cities like Kandahar. In 1919, the first Afghani king encouraged women to shed the head to toe garb by revealing the face of his wife in public. Many women in the more liberal cities obliged and by the 1980s less than half the women in Kabul, the capital, wore the burka. Under the Taliban, women had little choice: wear the robe in public or face a vicious beating. But Afghan women say this was more inconvenience than hardship. "Under...
...amid 11,000-ft. peaks. From several miles away, the unmanned surveillance plane, operated by the CIA last Monday, locked in on the gathering. An agent somewhere in the region, viewing a live feed from the Predator's belly-mounted camera, thought the men were wearing Arab--not Afghan--garb, and that the leader was tall. After conferring with U.S. Central Command officials at their Florida headquarters, the agent signaled the Predator to shoot. A 100-lb. Hellfire missile roared toward the truck at nearly 1,000 m.p.h. According to Amanullah Zadran, a minister in the Afghan government, the dead...
...these classes are taught by TFs, who, unlike professors, are not reimbursed for party expenditures. Debra N. Prager, a Germanic Languages and Literatures graduate student whose love for parties has driven her to bring in lavish chocolate sweets for her Fairy Tales section and to dress in full Medieval garb from the ART for her Medieval Court section, has made huge efforts to provide an off-campus party for her German A class. She said one of her most vivid memories of her days socializing with undergraduates was when she picked up the six students from her German A class...