Word: harem
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...carry "sunshine in his pocket" has begun to resemble the bitter depiction in Moretti's film. Berlusconi is still fighting his way through a series of lurid allegations that began when his estranged wife accused him in April of "frequenting underage females" and has since featured reports of harem-like get-togethers at Berlusconi's residences and a prostitute who says she was paid to spend the night with him. Adding to his woes was a civil court ruling on Oct. 3 that may force Berlusconi's family-business holding company to pay a whopping €750 million ($1.1 billion...
...protests tap into a long Iranian tradition. The seeds of the 1905-11 Constitutional Revolution - which produced Iran's first parliament and constitution - were planted in the Tobacco Protest of the 19th century, when even women in the royal harem stopped smoking their water pipes to protest an exclusive concession given by the Shah to a British company. Protests, strikes and boycotts prevented Iran from becoming a British protectorate in 1920, secured the reappointment of reformist Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1952 and - most significant of all - ended 2,500 years of dynastic rule in 1979 and ushered...
...being one of the cheapest formals on campus ($15 for a couple, $10 per person), HoCo didn't seem to skimp on anything. There was a fortune teller (yeah...), delicious snacks, and everything was meticulously decorated. After walking over a "magic carpet" to enter, you could go to the "harem"-themed library. Or, just head straight for the relatively empty dining hall to swing dance or the packed upper common room to grind on your date. And everyone else standing near...
...late-15th century Palazzo della Gherardesca - might as well be living in a museum. Previous owners have included an order of nuns, a pope, several generations of Florentine nobility and - from 1883 to 1885 - a viceroy of Egypt who sold it when he was refused permission to house his harem there. Thanks to its rebirth as a Four Seasons hotel, you have a chance to see what the ladies were missing...
...story of the holiday goes something like this: Esther the beautiful marries into the harem of Persian King Achashveirosh (365 BCE), where she uses her influence over the king to save the Jewish people from the King’s evil advisor Hamen (namesake of those delicious triangular jam-filled cookies), who wants to kill the Jewish people for having their own unique traditions and values...