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...wear a veil at all. I want to wear miniskirts." And he may not be counting on the determination of women like Fakhria, 35, a mother of four in Kabul. After the Taliban forced her from her job at a teacher-training college, she opened a secret beauty salon in her house in Kabul. A high wall shields her customers from prying eyes. Inside are pictures of female models torn from Pakistani magazines. On shelves beside a large mirror, she has a selection of lipsticks, eyeliners and hair sprays. In the West they would be commonplace. In a society that...
...House is much more than a better version of Lowell basement. It is also an extension of the Adams House room where co-founder Scammon had his pad senior year, to use Andrews term. Before the graduation of the bands founding members, FinkFankFunk turned the Pad into a funky salon, every weekend, after the shows, says Alec B. Spiegleman...
...House of Funk held its first funky salon after an impressive gig last Friday, in which FinkFankFunk headlined a club for the first time, at Middle East. After the show, Alex and Ben [D. Scheuer 04, lead singer] got all these girls to come back, and some guys, says Andrews. Scammon describes...
...lovely girl the young Audrey Hepburn played. Tautou, though she lacks Hepburn's petrifying beauty, is worth comparing to the Audrey. Her tight, seraphic smile holds a universe of promise and mystery; and in the right light, she's adorable. From her first prominent role, as a pig-tailed salon assistant in Tonie Marshall's 1999 Venus Beauty Institute, Tautou has been France's Star of Tomorrow du jour...
...blamed for the excesses of the Taliban. The Taliban, he says, are like the Nazis, ordinary Afghans like Jews in concentration camps. It's a provocative, if hyperbolic point. And if you're really interested in it, you can read the widely-discussed and -mass-e-mailed Salon article where Tamim Ansary coined it three weeks...