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...inner-city fashionistas, black expression and creativity through fashion lives even today. Interestingly, some elements of the unique assemblage that has characterized black culture have even seeped into the mainstream. Casual hip-hop attire, for example, which was born out of a predominately black movement, has taken catwalks by storm and invaded the closets of millions worldwide...
...when they look at a veil, all some lawmakers see is trouble. Since France banned overt religious symbols in its state schools in 2004, veiled women - whether they wear a head scarf, a niqab or a full-body burqa - have been caught in a storm of debate in Europe. As a British citizen, Awan still has the right to wear whatever she wants. Several German states, by contrast, prohibit Muslim teachers from wearing head scarves in class. In parts of Belgium, civil servants are banned from wearing head scarves at work, and the Dutch government plans to make it illegal...
...Jaaber’s baskets all came in an up-and-down first half that featured four ties and five lead changes. The Crimson jumped out to an early 7-2 lead, only to see the Quakers go on a 13-0 run. Yet Harvard weathered that storm and regained the lead at 19-17. But Jaaber’s dunk with 3:59 left in the half gave Penn a 23-21 lead, and it would not trail or be tied again.The Quakers took a 32-26 lead into halftime, but the Crimson scored the first five points...
...felt upset that their names were being bandied around in the press.” The nature of the position, with expansion of the campus into Allston looming on the horizon, may have discouraged many candidates, Thomas says. “It’s a sort of perfect storm of the perceived crisis of Summers, and fictions about unruly faculty, an actual crisis, and a well-advertised moved into Allston,” Thomas says. “I could imagine someone in their 40s or 50s thinking, do I want to be eaten up by a machine like...
Delivering responses as crispas his shirt--and displaying a confidence as miraculously uncreased after months at the center of a storm over alleged corruption--Tony Blair on Feb. 6 submitted to a very public interrogation. He has twice answered police questions--as a witness, not as a suspect--in Britain's so-called cash-for-honors affair, becoming the first serving Prime Minister to be grilled by the cops. But this was his biannual appearance before a top parliamentary committee, a set-piece occasion that always provides insights into government policy. This time, as the chief witness genially pointed...