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...Center. “We wanted to do something where we could do a public service contribution,” she said. Although the event was called the “Naked Ladies Brunch,” no women were completely naked yesterday. However, many stripped down in the makeshift dressing room to try on new tops and dresses. Attendees also nibbled on fruit salad, bagels, and eggs cooked by Marine and other Women’s Center staffers as they browsed through the piles of clothing. The clothing selection was diverse, ranging from conventional jeans, tops, and shoes...
...illegal activities, are buying the loyalty of poverty-stricken young men. It may come as a surprise to many Americans that fitness and weight-lifting are fast-growing crazes in Kabul and a popular cult figure is California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor's likeness can be found at makeshift gyms throughout the city, which use cinder blocks and old Soviet tank parts for equipment. To many young Afghans, Schwarzenegger embodies the virtues of discipline, goal-setting and accomplishment. Afghans prefer the U.S. to the Taliban, but they have suffered too long from 40% unemployment and a reconstruction that never...
...beard, returned to the Red Mosque, the site of a weeklong siege in 2007 between the mosque's seminary students and the Pakistani military, to deliver a sermon ahead of Friday prayers. Thousands of worshipers flocked to the centrally located mosque, spilling into the surrounding streets and kneeling on makeshift prayer rugs while Aziz's voice boomed out over loudspeakers. He told the story of Moses' struggle against the Pharaoh of Egypt to allow his people to practice their religion. Moses, considered by Muslims to be a prophet, is a common theme in Islamic sermons, but at the Red Mosque...
...more than 100 injured. On a mission to secure the area less than an hour after the Red Shirts had decamped, the commander of the élite 11th Infantry Regiment of the Royal Guards walked over to a pile of picture frames cast aside in a corner of the makeshift room. Picking up one photograph, he gazed at the image of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, dapper in a pink blazer and pink shirt...
...Monday, at the Red Shirts' makeshift headquarters in the shadow of Bangkok's neo-Italianate Government House, protest leader Jatuporn vowed to continue his crusade until Abhisit leaves office. "Once the army kills the Red Shirts, then the Red Shirts will rise up and fight," he told TIME as a group of protesters with badges that read "Red Guards" nodded in agreement. "It's not my plan to make violence like this, but our people will stand up and fight...