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Karachi's mosques offer an oasis of shade and tranquility in this sweltering city. But fewer Karachiites are responding to the muezzin's call to prayer these days. The city is experiencing one of its periodic spasms of vengeful warfare between extremist members of Islam's Sunni and Shi'a religious sects. Mosques are a favored target...
...moment, try to understand, cowboys and cowgirls, that you’re actually worth a lot more than what our sad sexual culture is trying to sell you out for,” he wrote. “No matter how you cut it, crop it, light it, or shade it, whether you publish it, print it, or just pick it up and read it, exploitation is still a denial of anyone’s, and everyone’s, dignity...
...Work is aggravating me,” she wrote in an April 28 entry on the publicly accessible journal, the contents of which have since been taken offline. “I am one shade lighter than homicidal today. I am two snotty e-mails from professors away from bombing the entire Harvard campus...
...verbal meanderings are partly a reflection of a mind that sees complexity in almost every issue. The son of a diplomat, educated partly in boarding schools in Europe, Kerry learned to look at current affairs from multiple perspectives. Says an adviser: "It's not like he's trying to shade the truth. He overintellectualizes his explanations." Asked by TIME in a March interview whether the Iraq war would be worth the costs if no weapons of mass destruction were ever found, Kerry replied, "No, I think you can still--wait, no. You can't--that's not a fair question...
...white wedding dress has been a beloved Western tradition for more than 150 years, and we have Queen Victoria to thank for it. Donning the symbolic shade of purity has been de rigueur ever since she came down the aisle in 1840 in a creamy white satin gown trailing an 18-ft. train. Before that, royal brides wore mostly red or silver, and commoners opted for elegant dresses in floral patterns or colors. But brides, grooms and marrying mores have changed. Women tie the knot later in life (at about 27, in contrast to 22 a generation ago), and more...