Word: hussains
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...players of Al-Madinah, the hijab is just part of the uniform. "Its like WNBA - our hijabs are like their headbands," says 17-year-old Emtiaz Hussain, originally from Yemen. Hussain plans to come back and coach the girl's team when she graduates high-school next year. But for most of these girls, their involvement in sports is an all-too-brief phase through which convention requires that they pass. "They cannot play in college," says Coach Zekic. "Our religion does not allow playing in shorts, exposing our skin and body movements to a male audience...
...Pakistan, I was thrilled to learn that Obama's mother spoke French and beginner's Urdu. I hope her bright son wins the presidential race and enters the White House as a humble and humane President caring for the whole of humanity, irrespective of color, race or nationality. Jalal Hussain, BROSSARD, QUEBEC, CANADA...
...party, badly tainted by its association with the widely unpopular President, has seen support plummet and has won just 38. Most of Musharraf's cabinet, including his party president, speaker of the house and several other close allies, appear to have lost their reelection bids. Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, head of the PML-Q, conceded defeat. "We accept the results with an open heart" and "will sit on opposition benches" in the new parliament, he told the Associated Press...
...Still, some question how effective the talking cameras will be on Friday and Saturday nights, when crowds can get rowdy. Hussain Scandari, a 19-year-old college student, doubted if troublemakers and people who have been drinking heavily will pay much heed to the audio admonitions. "They'll just do their own thing." Still, if they're arrested, they won't be able to say they weren't warned...
...parties striving to cement real grassroots political support that is loyal to the party rather than the candidate. It is having limited success. Analysts estimate that only one-third of PPP votes in the last election were for the party, which is why candidates such as Hussain can switch parties yet maintain their vote bank. This year, the death of Bhutto may be the catalyst that turns hundreds of local elections into a real national movement. In Lalian (which had a PPP representative who then switched over to Musharraf), it already seems to be working. "The politicians come here...