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...columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's essay "Nothing to Hide" [Oct. 16], on the controversy surrounding former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw's request that Muslim women remove their veils in his office: The political and religious debate between Islamic fundamentalists and the West regarding female modesty cleverly sidesteps the root responsibility as being in Islamic religion or, as Alibhai-Brown says scornfully, in females themselves, "as carriers of original sin." That some Muslim women find solace in their exemption from the extremes of fashion and images that famously victimize so many of their Western sisters is quite beside the point...
...some 14 million people a week watch and root for her? Because it's easier to hate a straw man--or a straw Mexican--than a person, even a fictional one. And because, as our pop culture shows, Americans' attitude toward foreigners is more complex than the build-a-fencers would make...
...just take what you can and move with it.”She would know. At 20 years old, and with no previous business experience, Matthews is starting her own publication, NEU Magazine, set for release in New York this coming February.The magazine aims to root out and expose the undiscovered talents lurking around every corner of New York City, or, as Matthews says, to “increase the visual acuity of the city.”Already Matthews has a staff of 20 to 30 people—most based in New York and most at least three...
Carol Bankerd, a resident of Kerry Corner, said the root damage was a result of Harvard’s failure to adequately protect the tree during construction of the graduate housing...
...Greeks believed that the gods visit the sins of the fathers upon their sons. But when it comes to the Bush family and Iraq, the tragedy runs from stem to root. And so over the next few weeks, key members of Bush's father's vaunted foreign policy team--the real A-team of the Republican foreign policy establishment--will step in and conduct what amounts to a family intervention. Led by former CIA Director Gates and former Secretary of State James Baker, who co-heads a commission on Iraq, Dad's former aides will present the son with...