Word: submitting
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...modern Muslim woman, I fast and pray; but I refuse to submit to the hijab or to an opaque, black shroud. On Sept. 10, 2001, I wrote a column in the Independent newspaper condemning the Taliban for using violence to force Afghan women into the burqa. It is happening again. In Iran, educated women who fail some sort of veil test are being imprisoned by their oppressors. Saudi women under their body sheets long to show themselves and share the world equally with men. Exiles who fled such practices to seek refuge in Europe now find the evil is following...
...submit that he is smiling and serene not because he is crazy. He is smiling gently because for him, the most perplexing and troubling questions we all face every day have already been answered. He has placed his trust in the arms of God. Just because it isn't the God that many of us believe in does not detract from the sincerity or power of his faith. It is a faith that is real, all too real--gripping billions across the Muslim world in a new wave of fervor and fanaticism. All worries are past him, all anxiety...
Human perfection. Whether we like it or not. Justice, peace and virtue. That concept of the beneficent, omnipotent will of God and the need to always submit to it, whether we like it or not, is not new. It has been present in varying degrees throughout history in all three great monotheismsJudaism, Christianity and Islamfrom their very origins. And with it has come the utter certainty of those who say they have seen the face of God or have surrendered themselves to his power or have achieved the complete spiritual repose promised by the Books of all three faiths...
...seductive,” Wright-Swadel said of OCS’s on-campus recruiting program, explaining that the comprehensive system streamlines the process of the job search by essentially doing a good percentage of the work for students. Instead of seeking out companies directly, students submit their resumes and schedule interviews online with participating companies and have the option to attend the numerous information sessions offered. This past week, more than fifteen companies—ranging from the Boston Consulting Group and Goldman Sachs to the CIA, Google, Inc. and General Mills—have invited students to hear...
...chosen girls were then contacted via Facebook message with details on how they could win the honor (and the $1200 prize) of becoming Harvard’s next Miss University, a gateway to the national Miss CO-ED contest. The magazine encouraged each hopeful to submit flattering photos for “some advance consideration.” Everything came together last Tuesday in the Gilbert living room in Currier, where CO-ED judges rubbed shoulders with a few male models as Freeze photographers snapped pictures of each of the candidates. The night’s action took place under...