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...There is a Women of the Pudding organization, though. We meet every week or so, and we do so to remind ourselves that we are women in a male organization—we realized that there should be more of a forum for the issue. Women are not a silent minority...
...young designer Doo-Ri Chung, whose spare and ethereal designs have garnered her a devoted following and the 2006 CFDA Swarovski's Perry Ellis Award for Emerging Talent. Similarly, Belgian designer Raf Simons has made a return hit of Jil Sander's clean collection, which he describes as "pure," "silent" and "romantic." "The aesthetic that comes out is 'Let's not add what's not necessary,'" he says...
...Shari'a law but laws influenced by Shari'a." Yudhoyono himself has avoided any public comment on the bylaws' legality. "The President will do nothing on this because he is scared of offending the Islamic movement," says former Indonesian President and moderate Muslim cleric Abdurrahman Wahid. "If the silent majority isn't speaking out against the Shari'a-ization of Indonesia, then why should he risk his political career for them?" Even presidential adviser Agus Widjojo frets about the official silence: "The government can't just have a policy of no action on Islam. This policy only emboldens the extremists...
...with almost cinematic deftness. These first scenes also give the story a very human tension, making subtle (and not-so-subtle) comparisons, through Deng’s eyes, of Africa and America. Deng confides that since coming to the States, he’s had a habit of telling silent stories to people who slight him—people whom he thinks would act differently if they knew the story of his suffering. Slowly but surely, Deng’s story unfolds through narratives he intends for various people who disappoint him in America. Everything from the happy, simpler days...
...sectarian war. That was routine for his platoon until a few days ago, when the violence suddenly dropped almost to nothing. One soldier said he used to doze off at night by imagining the gunfire was the sound of rain on a tin roof. Now the nights are virtually silent. That's unusual for any Baghdad neighborhood, and eerie for a notoriously violent place like Ghazaliyah. Gunfights with insurgents and militiamen worry Sgt. Michaud less than figuring out where those enemies have gone. "I have no idea," he said. "It's kind of scary. It's kind of scary...