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...have no apprehension that our relations with the United States would in any way suffer because of the change of headmistress." - On his relationship with Obama, compared with his good relationship with President Bush, in an interview with...
...learning how to treat people. That's a lesson Jenny must take at school - not so much from her starchy headmistress (Emma Thompson) as from her home-room teacher. Miss Stubbs (Olivia Williams) is one of those quiet beauties who dress severely, perhaps to punish the world for not noticing their loveliness. In an American movie about high school she would pull out her hairpins and do a pole dance; here she's the voice of maternal reason. Jenny's romance with David has deepened, and she has started telling off her superiors, recklessly burning academic bridges she might need...
...release of Ghazi's brother and Mosque head Maulana Abdul Aziz, who has been detained by government forces since his capture a year ago on July 4. Aziz had been caught trying to escape the madrassa complex dressed as a woman, wearing the all-encompassing black hijab. His wife, headmistress of the woman's madrassa, was released...
...days later, her prayers were answered, according to the school's headmistress. Aman, together with some 70 other students and militants, died as the weeklong siege of the mosque and madrasah complex culminated in a final showdown lasting 36 hours. Few Pakistanis had supported the mosque-led vigilante campaign that kidnapped alleged brothel workers, threatened video and music shops selling "un-Islamic" material and declared a fatwa against the popular woman tourism minister who had been photographed hugging her parachute instructor. Still, the government's attack on the madrasah last July was widely condemned. The popularity of President Pervez Musharraf...
...that is perhaps asking too much, One of this terrible tale's heroines is an American woman named Minnie Vautrin, headmistress of a missionary college for young women, a ferocious defender of the "Safety Zone," compassionate defender of its young women. She survived, went home and, a year to the day after leaving China, committed suicide. Eerily, Iris Chang, having rescued this narrative from oblivion, also committed suicide - perhaps because her book contains images that could never be erased from her consciousness. There are some stories that, if we become too intimate with them, have the power to destroy...