Word: sultana
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There's another reason many Saudis would find Rotana shocking: men and women working side by side. The sight unnerves enough men who come looking for a job that human-resources manager Sultana al-Rowaili has developed a trick to see if a male applicant can handle working in a mixed-gender office. She arranges for a female colleague to interrupt the initial interview, and watches to see if the man loses concentration or stares too much. Sometimes even that isn't necessary. Many men are undone by the very idea of being interviewed by a woman. "They...
Sidwell, a tony Washington institution that counts Chelsea Clinton among its alumni, obviously has resources others don't, but schools don't need green to be green. Sultana High School in San Bernardino, Calif., used basic conservation techniques, like shutting off lights and equipment when not in use, to cut its energy bill by $100,000--half of which Sultana was allowed to keep for its own use. Like his counterparts at Sidwell, Mark Ziesmer, a Sultana science teacher, has designed lesson plans around conservation. "The students were really motivated," he says. "They want to understand what it means...
...President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines on one of his favorite quotes, "Don't cry like a woman over the kingdom that you lost because you did not defend it like a man," which he mistakenly attributed to Cervantes [WORLD, Dec. 16]. The source of that quote was actually Sultana Ayelsha, mother of Boabdil (Abu-Abdallah), the last king of Granada. After surrendering the city to Ferdinand and Isabella in January 1492, Boabdil left Granada. On his way out, he stopped at a mountaintop to look for the last time at the beautiful city he had lost, and wept...