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...cities like Makassar, at least half the women wear the jilbab, a sturdy veil that covers the head and the neck. The preferred dress at Ikhwan's school, which opened in 1999 and now boasts 1,000 students, was unusually conservative for Indonesia. But it pointed to how quickly the Wahhabi influence could take root. "I don't remember any girls wearing the jilbab when I was growing up," says Syamsurijal Ad'han, a sociologist in his mid-20s who helps run a moderate Muslim NGO in Makassar. "Now, where I come from, it's mandatory for girls to wear...
...forehead by a .22 rifle bullet; he's left to starve to death, his own prop a smirking skull. This is the text in a Sunday splash from 1943: "A brawny arm is hurled forward! With the speed of lightning, a leather thong wraps itself around the detective's neck - he chokes. His hands struggle toward his throat. His body is yanked backward. The pain is excruciating! The whip butt rises and descends as all senses leave the brain of detective Dick Tracy...
...menu consists of salads, pizzas and-unusually for a place in this neck of the woods-sushi. It's all of a serviceable standard, but Fiesta's young, cosmopolitan atmosphere, the weekend DJ nights and the opportunities for people watching through expansive windows overlooking colorful Uritskogo Street-one of the city's main shopping drags-add plenty of seasoning. An added bonus is Arbatskii Dvorik, the cozy restaurant located upstairs from the café, which is named after the Arbat, a famous street in Moscow. As well as English menus, you'll find some decent wines there-a big plus...
...match was one with a theme, as all three games opened with the two teams trading sideouts. And in each, Springfield found a way to string together a few points to take a big lead. “At the start of each of the games, we were neck-and-neck, maybe one or two points behind, and then the Springfield players would start ripping jumpers,” Fitz said. “We would let them spring off six or seven points in a row and dug ourselves into a hole that we couldn?...
Michelangelo did not, as legend has it, paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel lying down. He stood up, neck craned back, for the entire enterprise. That scholarly judgment is just one of many in The Sistine Chapel (Harmony Books; 271 pages; $60), an intensive look at the Vatican's most famous treasure. The book's seven essays give due credit to other artists who embellished the Renaissance chapel of Pope Sixtus IV, including Botticelli and Raphael. But the focus is on Michelangelo, whose preference for bright colors is coming to light as restorers clean centuries of candle soot, grime...