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...without violating the kingdom's strict religious code." I believe in the female right of privacy. Most Saudi women feel that way as well. We have separate campuses at the university for men and women. Giving women their own places to work and compete is better than their being second-class employees, as in some Western countries. Saleh Almuzaini, RIYADH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

...ones who remained on our land when roughly 700,000 Palestinians were expelled by the new state of Israel in 1948. We comprise nearly 20 percent of Israel’s population. Yet Lieberman—an immigrant from Moldova—would have us stripped of our second-class citizenship in a land swap with a future Palestinian state—a state whose very existence Netanyahu has yet to accept...

Author: By Nimer Sultany | Title: U.S. Lessons for Israel’s Jim Crow | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...same time, many older members are snobbish towards the supposed hicks from the east. The newcomers brought dynamism and diversity to the E.U., but they are often treated like second-class members. "Nobody should preach to us now," Poland's Europe Minister Mikolaj Dowgielewicz says. "Some of the economies in the [east] are much more stable, and certainly the public finances are much more healthy, than in many of the eurozone countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Thoughts About E.U. Enlargement | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...three distinct kinds: first class, second class, and third class, with further scales of value evident but less formally defined within each class. First class relics include any object that may have had contact with Jesus Christ during his life, death or resurrection: wood from the stable where legend says he was born; pieces of the cross or nails used for his crucifixion; the Shroud of Turin, which the faithful believe wrapped his body before it was set in the tomb ... Had John the Baptist worn a watch, for example, it would be a second-class relic. (Had Jesus given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rag and Bone: In Search of the Holy Dead | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Adams House was the latest strike in this culinary crusade to make commuters second-class citizens. Listen up, river dwellers and your HUDS accomplices: we won’t stand for it. Le Resistance is slowly forming against you and your delusion that the arbitrary housing lottery somehow made you more entitled to sustenance. And thanks, random girl in Adams for refusing to call me your “guest.” You will be the first...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hate It: Interhouse Dining Restrictions | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

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