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Four days after she was spared the lash but jailed by a Sudanese court for insulting Islam, British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons received a presidential pardon Monday and was deported from the country. But while her alleged crime - permitting her primary students to name a Teddy bear Mohammad - garnered the Khartoum regime a good deal of international condemnation for its radical justice, the charges against Gibbons and her famous bear were incidental to a larger struggle playing out in Sudan - the manipulation of Islam in the pursuit of personal and political power...
...their anger at an English teacher jailed because her class named a teddy bear Mohammed. A crowd of about 1,000 young men streamed out of mosques to gather outside Khartoum's presidential palace, later marching to the British Embassy and burning newspapers bearing images of 54-year-old Gillian Gibbons. The crowd demanded that the teacher be executed following her conviction on charges of blasphemy. Gibbons was sentenced to 15 days in prison; she had faced a maximum of 40 lashes or a year in prison under Sudan's legal code, which is based on British law but modified...
...game near or at the top of the ECAC standings and placed highly in the national rankings despite significant roster overhaul. The two squads graduated their biggest stars last year—Patty Kazmaier Award winner Julie Chu for the Crimson and 2007 ECAC Player of the Year Gillian Apps for the Big Green—along with other key players, and have shown the ability to remain competitive while transitioning in an influx of youth. “The good news for both of us is it’s not about marquee players anymore,” Stone...
...Dordogne? I wish you would keep your aid, your condescension and the Irish rock stars who go with it, and just unshackle us by scrapping cap. But then Africa would develop of its own accord, with no thanks to Western aid - and we wouldn't want that, would we? Gillian Behrens, CAMPS BAY, SOUTH AFRICA...
...after being named one of three finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award, given each year to the nation’s top women’s hockey player, senior forward Julie Chu was named co-Ivy League Player of the Year. Chu will share the honor with Dartmouth forward Gillian Apps. Junior defenseman Caitlin Cahow joins Chu as a unanimous selection to the Ivy League first team, while sophomores Sarah Vaillancourt and Brittany Martin were named to the second team...