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...later parts of his film, Moore returns to his hometown, Flint, Mich., where Lila Lipscomb, whose soldier son has died in Iraq, begins to question, with great poignancy, what his sacrifice...
...Lila K. Gollogly ’04, a student in the course, adds that it feels “just like an internship,” not like a standard course...
LECTURE | Norton lectures: Manet’s Le bain and the death of the historic landscape As part of an ongoing series entitled “Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye,” art historian Linda Nochlin, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, will speak on the death of the historic landscape. She specializes in the art of the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in the work of Gustave Courbet and the Impressionists, as well as the representation of women and the work of women artists...
...school's] Italian parents?" Italian parents may yet get their way. Italy's Education Ministry has appealed the ruling, and a judge has temporarily suspended the original decision, delaying the removal of the crucifix until at least Nov. 19. In France, the case of the teenage sisters Lila and Alma Lévy-Omari - expelled last month from the Henri-Wallon public high school in suburban Paris for wearing their head scarves, or hijab - has refocused attention on a cultural fracture that began in the late 1980s. Critics claim that's when Islamic fundamentalists seized on head scarves...
...scarves entirely, while others have no problem with them. Still others, like Henri-Wallon, allow what history and geography teacher Philippe Darriulat calls a "compromise scarf" that leaves the head only partially covered. (That's the one the other dozen students in the school are allowed to wear.) But Lila and her 16-year-old sister wear a hijab that covers everything except the face, which officials at Henri-Wallon say is provocative. Lila, 18, points out that the sisters had already agreed to modify their dress, wearing light-colored scarves that tie at the back of the head, combined...