Word: queens
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...fled to the U.S. in 1996, is the first woman in 31 years to compete in a beauty contest as Miss Afghanistan. When Samadzai paraded in her native country's sash at the recent Miss Earth pageant in the Philippines, the Afghan supreme court condemned the leggy Pashtun beauty queen to hell, calling such pageants "totally un-Islamic" and against "tradition, human honor and dignity." Ah, if only all Afghan women enjoyed the dignity Western women are afforded: to be judged not by the hem of their burqas but by the size of their breasts...
...typical of this brand of melodrama, The Æthiop’s plot is more convoluted than complex. The play is set in timeless Baghdad, complete with such characters as a vizier named Giafar, Cephania, Queen of the East, a cadi, an emir, a slave, and an Arab. But except for the exotic names and a few camel references, this is a play of troubled lovers, conspiracy and happy endings that could have been set anywhere...
...album and the launch of a new tour next spring, I am hoping to see a Britney Spears holiday special, broadcast from her hometown of Kentwood, La, and hopefully with cameos from her mom and lil’ sis Jamie Lynn. The three could probably pull off shimmery ice queen and princess looks, and showcase Britney’s favorite stocking stuffers such as the pink diamond-encrusted Louis Vuitton cigarette lighter she has been flashing during interviews these days. If producers went for a heartwarming holiday reunion theme with a few of her high school pals, with their incomprehensibly...
...than any other institution in the country.” This interest in studying Buddhism is not a 21st century development. In fact, it goes back to the late 19th century and to some of the men who gave their names to important Harvard buildings. According to Christopher S. Queen, Lecturer on the Study of Religion and teacher of a seminar on American Buddhism, Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, were very interested in Buddhism and Hinduism, though they were not entirely clear on the difference between the two. Thoreau even translated...
...final act’s general silliness and fun, it also reinvigorates the institution of the drag queen, giving her a shiny, unique appeal. Surrounded by her “assistants”—your usual boys in wigs—Gheri Dosti’s surprise-in-a-sari uses traditional dance moves to intrigue (she is played by Sudarshan Belsare, a classically trained Bharantanatyam dancer). The power in her moves may be manly, but the sensitivity with which they are executed makes them “disconcerting” in the best sense...