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...greater student control,” Minow wrote in an e-mail. Still, many advocacy groups worry that administrators will use the ruling in the case, Hosty v. Carter, to exercise greater control over student publications. “The court really messed this up,” said Northern Illinois Newspaper Association spokesman Jim Killam. Administrators could take advantage of the ruling’s “vague wording,” the president of College Media Advisers, Inc., Lance Speere, said. College Media Advisers is an organization that works with student newspapers to ensure that the papers...
...Almost 80% of Iraqis are Arab, while some 15-20% are Kurds - a distinct ethnic group with its own language, history and culture, concentrated in northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, northern Iran and southern Georgia. Kurds have struggled for their rights as a cultural minority in all of those societies, often suffering vicious repression, but have enjoyed de facto independence in northern Iraq under U.S. protection since the 1991 Gulf War. Although they participate in Iraqi national politics and one of their key leaders, Jalal Talabani, is currently Iraq's president, the vast majority of Iraqi Kurds have signaled...
Especially disturbing is Levy’s interview with a teenage girl from an upscale Northern California high school. The girl bases her self-esteem entirely on the male attention she receives...
...look Thai?it's to be stylish. "We don't want our clothes to look eth-nic," she says. Greyhound's Bhanu takes a similar approach. The spring-summer collection from Grey, the company's international line, features a range of handcrafted components: embroidery and silver ornaments from northern hill tribes are paired with hand-dyed fabrics and southern Thai fishermen's pants to achieve a look that's eclectic without being cloyingly traditional. "There's a poetry, taking things that are ancient, and making them modern," says Pernet, the Paris fashion critic, of the Grey collection. "It's kind...
...Nowhere is that choice more stark than in Africa. Earlier this month, authorities uncovered a large bird-flu outbreak on several poultry farms in northern Nigeria, the first time H5N1 has been found on the continent; more than 140,000 chickens have so far died from the virus or been culled. Though no human cases have been discovered yet, the news that the outbreak had gone undetected for up to a month raises concerns that the virus may already be spreading under the radar to other parts of the continent. Africa has an estimated poultry population of 1.1 billion birds...