Word: veil
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...contracts is not a main concern. Harvard, however, is not just an educational institution. As the oldest continually existent corporation in America, with an endowment nearing 30 billion dollars, and one of the area’s largest employers, it is an entity that cannot hide behind an educational veil; it is an entity that is more than capable of directly hiring security officers or at the very least ensuring that outsourced workers have just wages, fair grievance procedures, and a safe and respectful work environment...
...TIME: Simone Veil, one of your former party colleagues who now supports Nicolas Sarkozy, has said that you're only out for yourself. What is your motivation for running for President...
...rhetorical tendency in the media towards Manichaeism, seeing political Islamism as irremediably opposed to Western individualism. In “Snow,” these binary oppositions are repeatedly undercut.As blizzard conditions close all roads into Kars, the hamlet becomes a world unto itself. Beneath this white veil, Ka is brought into Ipek’s family circle and new love blossoms between the old friends. Yet we’re told, “Veiling as it did the dirt, the mud, and the darkness, the snow would continue to speak to Ka of purity, but after his first...
Obama, in contrast, is so set on inoffensiveness that it’s getting hard to see any substance behind the veil of smiles and cuddles. His agenda includes eliminating poverty, creating energy independence, and building consensus between parties. Lucifer himself couldn’t take issue with this platform. All that’s left for Obama to do to cover all his populist bases is to absorb Justin Timberlake’s progressive platform of “bringing sexy back...
...These matches would have been unlikely in the Iran of my parents' generation, where social classes were impermeable, people mostly married within their religious and financial caste, and hejab was an inherited, fixed custom within specific groups. Back then, the daughters of veiled women learned to veil, the daughters of secular women learned to go bare-headed, and both were taught to regard the other, respectively, as backward or immoral. Such attitudes, as you might imagine, were not conducive to peaceful coexistence in a country that is composed of religious traditionalists, Westernized secularists, and everything in between. That these days...