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...Hell no. They threw me out. Here I am, a southern country girl, so I was easy to write off as a stupid kid. I still had my accent - I have it when I go home, but I hadn't learned how to disguise it. I raised the issue of class differences between women and racial differences. At this point this was really quite an important band of women in America, but not necessarily representative of all women's concerns. Then, of course, I raised the issue of gay women. That was all it took. [Betty Friedan...
Metzingen, a small town in southern Germany with a population of around 22,000, seems an unlikely place for a circus troupe to pitch its tent in the middle of winter, yet what looks like a vast, tented city looms from an icy field. The isolation of the location is summed up by the banter of several guests as they step inside...
...training in Iran came in late 2005, when he says he and a group of roughly 14 other Iraqis drove to the southern city of Amarah, near the Iranian border. Everything had been arranged through contacts in Syria and Lebanon, where he and his group had fled for a time trying to avoid capture by American forces. According to Ali, a convoy of new sport utility vehicles with drivers speaking only broken Arabic was waiting for them in Amarah. Soon the group was on the road east for a five-hour drive. The destination was an Iranian training facility, where...
...shocked," says Ali, who sat for an interview with TIME on the southern outskirts of Baghdad. "I never dreamed I would hold $10,000 in my hands." The starter money, however, was only a "drop in the sea." Ali says he continues to phone for funds with the contacts he made in Iran and that his group has conducted two successful roadside bomb attacks against American forces operating north of Baghdad...
...winter doldrums and get fired up for spring. The track and field squad is enjoying a three-week hiatus following the Indoor Heptagonal Championships—the end of the winter season—to prepare for next weekend’s spring season kickoff at the Texas Southern Relays. But junior high jumper Becky Christensen is finding out the hard way that there’s no rest for the weary. Last Friday, the Texas native competed in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships and brought home a fourth-place finish and her first indoor All-American accolades...