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Like the rise and fall of women's hemlines, the presence and shape of hair on men's faces has often been a barometer of the national mood. Though hipsters began sporting goatees in the 1950s, the more widespread return of the beard in the '60s became an emblem of the defiant counterculture's refusal to go along with the status quo. The cause of the current revival is more difficult to pin down. For some, it's simply a matter of wanting to be in vogue. In the past year, male models have been strutting their scruff on runways...
...novel displays Al Aswany's ability to portray in the most subtle, realistic manner the complex forces that shape such lives. With Chicago, he has produced a highly political diatribe against dictatorship, reflecting the rising calls for democracy in Egypt at the time he was writing it. The climax of the book unfolds with a scheme by Nagi, the medical student, and Salah, the professor, to stage a small protest during an official visit to the U.S. by the unnamed Egyptian President. Having been selected to give a short speech welcoming the President to Chicago, Salah intends to read...
...symbolic: Mitt Romney, the often-hyped Massachusetts governor turned presidential candidate, was watching the also-hyped New England Patriots as they approached the apparent verge of Super Bowl victory Sunday, just two days before the biggest election of Romney's life, Super Tuesday, when 21 states would shape the fate of his White House dreams...
...Overall 99 percent of medical literature is fantastic and in great shape,” said Garner. “However, it is important to find those occurrences that may be questionable...
Australia is about to apologize for six decades of social engineering that took tens of thousands of children from their parents. The apology, to be made by Australia's new government on Feb. 13, has been taking shape since 1997, when a 600-page report titled "Bringing Them Home" hit politicians' desks. Studded with heart-wrenching personal narratives, the report - based on a 17-month inquiry by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission - found that between 1910 and 1970, perhaps 100,000 children had been "forcibly removed" from Aboriginal families...