Word: hides
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...With the Taliban gone, Fakhria hopes to open a storefront salon. No blackened windows anymore to hide the forbidden faces. She also wants to go back to her teaching job. "I can make more money in a salon," she says. "But I want to pass on knowledge...
...With U.S. media raving about the new freedom of Afghan women now that the Taliban have gone, Indian Express columnist Pamela Philipose offers a sobering corrective. "Its tolerance of music and barbers must not hide the fact that (the Northern Alliance) comprises elements who would argue, like the Taliban do, that a woman's face is the source of all corruption." If those shaping Afghanistan's future are serious about the rights of women, she argues, women must be given an independent voice in the political process...
...current that passes through the world, and through the human heart. It manifests itself sometimes in violent acts; it often makes itself invisible, like an electromagnetic flow, a dark, humming force field. Evil is much more active and surprising than gravity, but like gravity, it is mysterious. It may hide itself in deep and ancient caves...
...still under arrest, along with 20 other supporters--dousing U.S. and Pakistani hopes of an uprising among the country's Pashtun tribesmen. Haq's execution, says a foreign diplomat in Islamabad, "will make any tribal chieftain hesitate before turning against the Taliban." Ahmadullah couldn't hide his glee. In a satellite-telephone interview with a Peshawar journalist, he exulted, "Anyone who tries to enter Afghanistan will meet the same fate as Abdul...
Your report "Banking On Secrecy" referred to "offshore financial centers like...Antigua, whose banks have the potential to hide and often help launder billions of dollars for drug cartels, global crime syndicates--and groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization." But the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Financial Action Task Force has found that Antigua and Barbuda is cooperating fully in the fight against money laundering. The governments of the U.S. and Britain agree, removing advisories that had been placed on Antigua and Barbuda...