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...gotten disfigured, played a schizophrenic, a tomboy, a killer, a lesbian, and the plain old-fashioned bitch. In First Love: The Litter on the Breeze, she's described by one character as having "Satan's eyes." Few actresses would jump at a chance to play a female character named Turkey but she did, in Stephen Chow's God of Cookery. She tucked away her plumage to create a visually impaired, bucktoothed, kick-ass noodle vendor, for which she was again nominated by the Academy. She was back in psycho mode for Four Faces of Eve, a movie in four dislocated...
...Thursday’s lunch, however, 461 students came together at Quincy House to eat a special banquet of fine cheeses, festive breads, turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and over 600 slices of pie, according to Derrick Cripps, the production manager of Quincy Dining Hall...
...Turkey is an exception to many rules. Women in Turkey are the most liberated in the Muslim world, though Malaysia and Indonesia come close, having hosted relatively progressive cultures before Islam came to Southeast Asia in the 9th century. In Turkish professional life women enjoy a level of importance that is impressive not only by the standards of other Islamic countries but also by European lights. Turkey's liberalism is a legacy of the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, an aggressive secularist who gave women rights unprecedented in the Muslim world (even if he found it hard to accept...
...fanatical subjugation of the female sex, occupies an extreme, but it nevertheless belongs on a continuum that includes, not so far down the line, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan and the relatively moderate states of Egypt and Jordan. Where Muslims have afforded women the greatest degree of equality--in Turkey--they have done so by overthrowing Islamic precepts in favor of secular rule. As Riffat Hassan, professor of religious studies at the University of Louisville, puts it, "The way Islam has been practiced in most Muslim societies for centuries has left millions of Muslim women with battered bodies, minds and souls...
...Syria 26 of the 250 members of parliament are female. In Iraq the numbers are 19 out of 250. Four Muslim countries have been or are currently led by women. In Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia, they rose to prominence on the coattails of deceased fathers or husbands. But Turkey's Tansu Ciller, Prime Minister from 1993 to 1995, won entirely...