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...trouble. But as Prime Minister, Erdogan has kept religion off the agenda. He banned alcohol in city-run cafes while mayor of Istanbul, and yet as Prime Minister has done nothing to limit drinking. During his election campaign, he spoke of the injustice of laws banning the Muslim head scarf in public buildings, but has left those laws intact. And Erdogan has vigorously pursued ties with the West, campaigning to get his country admitted to the European Union and for a deal to reunite Cyprus. When terrorists struck Istanbul in November, he said the culprits would account for their acts...
...described as being between 22 and 25 years old, and about 5 feet, 7 inches tall. He has dark hair, a round face, and a rather feminine voice. He usually wears a dark stiff hat and a paddock coat, and often a white vest and a large scarf pin. Fall River and Lynn are the places usually given by him as his home city...
...week's South Asian Federation Games in Islamabad. She has reason to be embarrassed: her time was more than three seconds slower than the winning Sri Lankan's 11.81. "I don't think that's so good for the Olympics, is it?" She giggles some more, and her head scarf slips down, exposing thick auburn waves. Despite the fact that she is in a restaurant full of men, she leaves it there, too caught up in her own joke to notice. For Robina Muqimyar, Afghanistan's first woman to compete in the Olympics, this is all a game, an adventure...
Clad in a plaid shirt, grey scarf and blue jeans, Chen—a 60-year-old Wellesley resident—arrived at the hearing carrying a week-old copy of The Harvard Crimson...
...have to reverse decades of neglect and indifference, which has led many banlieue residents to embrace the very cultural and religious identities that the Feb. 10 secularity vote seeks to discourage. And while opponents of the ban vow to continue their nationwide protests through the final vote, the head-scarf law may be only the beginning of France's controversial efforts to realize its republican ideals...