Word: romeos
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...Islamic environment." The Koran and the sayings of Muhammad are taught two days a week, Arabic three days a week. Grades 2 to 12 break for prayer once a day. Beyond Scripture, a Muslim approach influences the traditional curriculum as well. When teacher Fuzia Jarad's English class read Romeo and Juliet, the girls wanted to know, "Is it love at first sight?" "Yes," the teacher answered. "As Muslims, we don't do that. The difference is lust versus love; appearance versus knowing. Islam protects you from mistakes." For assistant principal Abdallah, who is in charge of discipline, love...
...Chen, gushing over an autograph of Romeo Dallaire, former force commander of the United Nations Mission to Rwanda and a fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government this year, says he will miss interacting with the small names on campus...
...region," says Malek Mrowa, a businessman and friend of Kassir's. The next morning, the 45-year-old Kassir, a university lecturer and columnist for Lebanon's An-Nahar newspaper, was dead, blown to pieces by a bomb planted beneath the driver's seat of his gray Alfa Romeo. It was the first assassination in Lebanon since the murder of former Premier Rafiq Hariri in February, which sparked huge anti-Syrian demonstrations and finally compelled Damascus to disengage from its neighbor at the end of April. Why was Kassir targeted? He was the most outspoken critic of Syria's stranglehold...
Even Shakespeare’s Romeo did not master the art of kissing at first. His reviews from Juliet after their first encounter: “You kiss by th’ book” (I, v, 107). Though some may interpret this as a positive attribute for our young lover, my kiss-doctor interpretation is instead that he lacked creativity. Romeo had something to learn about smooching. Be patient. It takes time...
Thursday, April 28. Romeo Dallaire discusses “Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.” 6 p.m. Free. Kennedy School of Government...