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...lives, in July, because the couple wanted to wait until after Aljawhary’s graduation for the festivities. The party will, in many ways, resemble more familiar Western weddings: the veiled bride will wear white as guests feast and dance. Aljawhary and Jou have also been careful to obey Muslim standards regarding courtship, while at the same time trying to adapt timeless traditions to the context of recent Muslim-American immigrant communities. “It’s definitely a challenge because you have to be very creative and you have to be open-minded...
...Uniform Player's Contract, a team can terminate a deal if a player "shall at any time fail, refuse, or neglect to conform his personal conduct to the standards of good citizenship and good sportsmanship." Another section of the contract states that player must "obey the Club's training rules, and pledge himself to the to the American public and to the Club to conform to high standards of personal conduct, fair play, and good sportsmanship." High standards of personal conduct? Fair play? Sportsmanship? Doesn't violating a league's drug policy fly in the face of all those morals...
...that Pyongyang doesn't welcome journalists to the People's Paradise. Each year, scores of journalists are invited to cover everything from glitzy festivals to picturesque mountain resorts and showcase factories. Everyone must obey the rules, which constantly change to make spontaneous exchanges with ordinary citizens very difficult, says one foreign journalist who visited Pyongyang recently. "This time," says the reporter, "I could take my laptop, but I could not walk alone in Pyongyang...
...only hope for them is to obey God,” she added. “Period...
...Laura, should it come out this November as expected. The problem is that Nabokov never wanted the book to be released in the first place; in his will, he'd instructed his son and executor Dmitri to destroy the manuscript. Dmitiri does not seem to be inclined to obey, setting off a debate over which is more important - an author's last wishes or the pull of literary posterity. Will next year's tentative release of David Foster Wallace's novel The Pale King, for example - just a year and a half after the writer's suicide last September - ensure...