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...would say, 'Mother, you're embarrassing me by not wearing the veil.'" But Zuha is also a budding hoops star, with shelves full of Nancy Drew and Harry Potter--not Britney Spears but hardly subservient role models. Zuha's marriage will be arranged, but her parents promise she can reject their choice of husband if need be. Despite her education to date, she will attend a non-Muslim college. "It will be different," she says, with both hesitancy and curiosity. It always...
...Palestinians to return to the Israel that they left in 1948, in the wake of the first Israeli-Arab war? Does any Palestinian really believe Israelis will accept demographic suicide? These painful recognitions must be accepted, for peace is impossible without compromises." Still, the paper urged Washington to reject Ariel Sharon's insistence that no talks could begin before seven days of calm have passed: "How can the absence of violence be a condition for negotiations, when it is the absence of negotiations that causes the violence in the first place...
...This idea is a win-win on so many levels,” Swift plaintively told the Boston Globe on Monday. “Don’t reject a good idea just because of where it came from. Why don’t they [legislative leaders] just give it a chance...
...intelligence also targeted the firm Al-Taqwa, based in Switzerland. Egyptian-born owner Youssef Nada denies bin Laden ties, but U.S. officials tell TIME that Al-Taqwa manages funds for al-Qaeda. As for Blessed Relief--a Saudi charity identified as a funder of al-Qaeda--U.S. officials reject claims by one of its founders that it has been dormant for five years. Sources say intelligence shows the charity financed movements of people, money and weapons in Bosnia as recently...
Dixon proposes that the City Council have greater control over education than the current state Proposition 2 1/2 requires. Instead of having the City Council simply approve or reject the School Committee’s budget, Dixon says he wants the council to be able to amend the school budget...