Word: mecca
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Having spent our summers in America’s intellectual mecca, we thought readjusting to school would be easy, but it is always tough to leave Milwaukee. And for all you Rand McNallys out there who keep asking us where Milwaukee is, it’s the capital of Minnesota. Milwaukee’s a place where people actually care about learning, which is why every year the city sends us off to university with a “Greatest Minds” parade. We know the mayor meant well, but it took us over seventeen days...
...Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S. Converts to Islam Re "Allah's Recruits" [Aug. 28]: it was interesting to read about Westerners like Jamal Harwood who have converted to Islam. Western countries offer the freedom to convert. But in Saudi Arabia, the heart of Islam, with the sacred city of Mecca, it is against the law for Muslims to convert. I believe in freedom of religion, but I fear converts more than those born into Islam because, as you pointed out in the article, converts are often more susceptible to extremism. Richard Chamberlin Rochester, New York, U.S. The attraction of Islam...
Pretty views, an equable climate and the fact that because St. Gallen is not a fashion mecca, the designer is not distracted by what he sees around him mean higher productivity for Albert Kriemler, who works either in his attic studio atop the old school that houses the Akris ateliers or at his desk at home, looking out onto a meadow of wildflowers and an installation he commissioned from the artist Ian Hamilton Finlay...
...Spain--conquered by Islam in the 8th century, lost to Christianity in 1492. That's a long way from Haifa, from Lebanon, from Baghdad and even from Mecca. It's an even longer way from rationality, which is why the struggle against it will be long and painful, and enduringly surreal...
...Islamic injunction for women to safeguard their chastity and avoid the attentions of men. "I love Allah and I also love to dress up," explains emcee Do'aa Amer, a popular personality on an Arab satellite channel, who took up the veil herself after a pilgrimage to Mecca six years ago. "The veiled woman can be stylish and hip." Adds Amina Shelbaya, whose Lips agency supplied most of the models for the show: "To be veiled does not mean to get fat and not care about your looks...