Word: scarfed
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...he’s a spy. Her first stop in freedom is a pub where she meets Annie, a feisty, leather-clad, Vespa riding Reese Witherspoon (who also produced the movie). Penelope manages to elude her parents’ attempts to find her by hiding her nose under a scarf. Of course, her nose gets revealed, as does the fact that she’s an heiress. She becomes a pig-nosed press darling. And obviously, since this is a Reese Witherspoon movie, she learns to love herself and gets her happily-ever-after. (Unfortunately for porcine fetishists...
...million, swelled by inflows of rural migrants looking for a better life. In time, a pious and conservative urban middle class emerged, and with it a different vision of Turkey's future. Ataturk's palace is now occupied by a former Islamist, whose wife wears a head scarf...
...Predictably, my great-aunt didn't cope well with the changes. To her, Ataturk's most profound legacy was to get women out of their veils and their homes. She was unable to understand why anyone would choose to wear a head scarf. For her, being modern and wearing a head scarf were incompatible; my live-and-let-live attitude infuriated...
...most Americans and Europeans, the head-scarf issue is a no-brainer. In a functioning democracy, an 18-year-old has the right to attend university dressed however she chooses. That much is indisputable. By lifting the ban, Turkey will have righted a wrong that has been a thorn in its side for far too long...
...they have to come here? Can't they go somewhere else?" That's the ugly face of secularist snobbery. Some university professors have even declared they won't teach head-scarved students, while Deniz Baykal, leader of the opposition Republican People's Party, speaks of the head scarf in militaristic terms as a "uniform imposed by outside forces...