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...Save the veils When Aisha Awan goes out in crowds, she goes under cover. She wears her body-length jilbab, her hijab (a scarf that hides her hair) and a niqab, a Muslim veil that covers almost her entire face. "I feel more comfortable, like I respect myself more when I'm covered," she says. The only things Awan leaves exposed are her eyes. "You can see somebody's whole history by looking into their eyes," she says...
Shefik Mehmet can't take five steps along Green Lanes high street in north London without someone stopping him to chat. Mehmet, a rotund Turk who has lived in this area for over 50 years, is technically retired, now that his son runs the family hair salon. But he's still busy working for the community. As chair of the local traders' association, he calms any frictions between businesses and residents. In his spare time, he works with local police to defuse clashes between ethnic gangs. Plus he's a governor at a nearby college, where he helps promote integration...
...caloric content, though my trainer finds it prohibitively high. The commercial, which had four alternate endings, showed a pair of auto mechanics inadvertently touching lips while sharing a Snickers bar. To compensate for their accidental smooch, they “do something manly” like tear out chest hair, hit one another with a wrench or a car hood, or drink motor oil and windshield washer fluid. It clearly doesn’t get more manly than that...
...classicist, it pains me to see good, solid Greek letters sullied by perky girls with silly hair. Greek Week and all other “Greek” events are the nerd’s rightful domain; how did they get co-opted by pearl necklaces and keg stands, the calories from which will just be obsessively worked off in the MAC at 9 a.m. the next morning...
...seen a few carnivals in his time, but blocos like this, he says, are almost like the old days. "Our lives are spent inside, in shopping malls, offices, gyms, apartment buildings," he says, remarkably thoughtfully for a man dressed in a pinafore and with a bow in his hair. "But I think people want to meet each other and be together. That's why real carnival for us is out here on the street...