Word: schoolgirl
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Life seemed full of grace nearly a decade ago, when Ibrahim caught sight of a slim schoolgirl at the local academy. Marie carried herself with such ease that Ibrahim, 22 years eager, proposed on the spot. She demurred at first, but later, over her guardian uncle's opposition, she married...
...that's exactly what Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has on his hands these days. In office for only three months, he insists he is trying to reform the nation; but political violence has left several people shot and a schoolgirl killed in a bomb blast--and new questions about whether Aristide is still the populist hero the U.S. saved seven years ago or a Creole caudillo who may send another tsunami of Haitian boat people onto beaches run by Bush's brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush. "Americans," says Aristide, 47, "ought to know that I am the democrat they...
Nakamura is so enamored of the colorful chunks of metal that in 1994 he named his magazine after the mightiest of them all, Giant Robot. The hip 'zine delves into Asian-American culture and spots the latest trends from across the Pacific - from wasabi-flavored potato chips to schoolgirl porn. Today's toy robots, says Nakamura dismissively, tend to be cobbled together with cheap plastic. Die-cast robots, on the other hand, are emblematic of the kind of Japanese craftsmanship that transformed the nation's image from shoddy imitator in the 1960s to technological leader just a decade later...
...discussed a similar case of a schoolgirl who was denied permission to take an exam wearing a headscarf...
...Kiyan Khaled al-Sayfi, 16, is a Palestinian schoolgirl from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. She studies at a school in the camp run by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency...