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...players of Al-Madinah, the hijab is just part of the uniform. "Its like WNBA - our hijabs are like their headbands," says 17-year-old Emtiaz Hussain, originally from Yemen. Hussain plans to come back and coach the girl's team when she graduates high-school next year. But for most of these girls, their involvement in sports is an all-too-brief phase through which convention requires that they pass. "They cannot play in college," says Coach Zekic. "Our religion does not allow playing in shorts, exposing our skin and body movements to a male audience...
...voting groups John McCain will target this fall, none would seem like more of a sure thing than this country's war veterans. So why is the celebrated Vietnam War hero and POW bracing for a potentially bad week with so many men and women who have served in uniform...
...Daley is the boss. Meanwhile, the new police superintendent has proposed that his officers submit to annual physical fitness tests and adhere to maximum body fat standards. The proposal hasn't gone over well, particularly with older officers. Weis further irritated officers by wearing a police uniform, even though he isn't a sworn officer. He has since promised to wear the uniform only for police academy graduations, funerals and other ceremonies...
...junta claims otherwise. State-controlled media show high-ranking soldiers in uniform overseeing the timely delivery of relief supplies to a grateful people. But a tour of the cyclone-ravaged communities along the Pyapon River reveals the military's efforts to be criminally inadequate. Deprived of food, water, shelter and medical supplies, and stalked by disease, those who survived the cyclone might yet perish in its aftermath. A natural disaster has come and gone. A new, man-made one has already begun...
...ROTC students, conforming to military restrictions on their free speech, must refrain from political statements while in uniform despite the position they may otherwise hold on DADT, the Iraq war, or any other issue. President Faust, encouraged and emboldened by Harvard’s own prejudice for leftist activism, will not extend the students this same courtesy by observing at the ceremony an honorable silence on DADT—which, as everyone already well knows, she and the administration staunchly oppose...