Word: scarfed
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...Yuck Fale” t-shirt, even Ms. Mannersmith allows that “this is your chance to be young and crazy, so go for it.” And since it will probably be freezing anyway, “a regular Harvard sweatshirt, mittens, scarf and down parka” will serve to shield your insulting inclinations from Yale’s more sensitive souls. Unless your scarf covers most of your face, do also keep in mind that while some artistically inspired crimson face paint constitutes healthy school spirit, writing ‘Yale sucks?...
...nestled between India and Tibet. For her, the power of Buddhism is more than philosophy. “Philosophy—it’s just reasoning,” Wangmo says while sitting on her bed, over which an image of the Buddha, framed by the traditional white scarf of good luck, is hung. “I don’t know, I don’t think religion works like that. The philosophy is the material, but faith has to weave it.” She recounts a time when she and her mother were walking...
...their classmates wear head scarves and have not been expelled. And in Germany, a teacher sues for the right to keep her head veiled in the classroom, and after a five-year battle she wins - except the court also rules that states are free to establish head-scarf bans of their own. Confused? You're not alone. In these three cases - all making news in the past few weeks - religious freedom and cultural identity clash with secular ideals. In all three, the decision-makers said they were upholding their countries' laws on the separation of church or mosque and state...
...supports, at least partly, the head-scarf cause. A 1989 ruling by the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest legal body, stated that outward manifestations of religious faith by students are not "incompatible with the principle of secularity." But the Conseil also noted that "ostentatious or militant" displays of crucifixes, yarmulkes or head scarves constituting acts of "pressure, provocation, proselytism or propaganda" should be banned. The Conseil failed to define precisely what it meant by "ostentatious or militant" displays, and the Education Ministry left it up to individual schools to determine what was a violation and what...
...charge us with anything, but they make our lives difficult." Norman Ali Khalaf, 41, a chubby man with a goatee, is a biology teacher at the school and head of the local Muslim political party FAKT. His Egyptian wife, Ola, dons neither a veil nor a head scarf. She serves guests sweet Arabic tea and fresh dates from Saudi Arabia. The couple's 5-year-old daughter, Nora, bounces around the room speaking perfect German and watching American cartoons on TV. Khalaf says municipal authorities are exaggerating the problem. He was born in Saarbrücken to a Palestinian father...