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...Claver and caught me"). The more pious children lay out their stockings at night in the shape of a cross. There are some hilarious set pieces. Nanda's group make their First Communion with students at the associated "poor school." Hurriedly helping one of these girls with her veil, a nun drives a safety pin through the child's ear. For the Lippington girls it is a lesson. Says Reverend Mother: "The poor little girl was in great pain, but she thought it was part of the ceremony, and ... thought of the terrible suffering of Our Lord...
Islamic guards led the dozen girls to the courtyard of Evin Prison in Tehran. The oldest was clad in a flowing black chador, the traditional Muslim veil. The others wore dark head scarves. As the guards began to blindfold them, the girls started chanting, "Death to fascism! Death to Khomeini...
...number of books, pamphlets and articles that have appeared in the U.S. and Europe attempting to show that there never was a Holocaust. The most notorious example: The Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Arthur R. Butz, an electronics engineering professor from Northwestern University. Said European Parliament President Simone Veil, an Auschwitz survivor: "We are fighting the possibility of a second Holocaust. Already there are people denying that a Holocaust took place, but we are the witnesses and we will make our voices heard...
...States." The terrorist told interrogators that he had first wanted to kill the "King of England" as well as the President of the European Parliament. He said he changed his mind after discovering that Britain was ruled by Queen Elizabeth II and the Europarliamentary President was a woman, Simone Veil. Agca told police that "as a Turk and a Muslim," he would not kill a woman...
...natural energy: braiding, coiling, spiraling, impartially taking form as hair, or leaves, or even wind. This apprehension of energy acted upon his drawings almost irrespective of their mood. It is present, for instance, in the exquisite black chalk study of the "pointing lady" standing by a stream, with her veil-like gathering and wreathing of drapery all' antica: a Leonardesque muse if ever there was one, pointing with a mysterious smile of affirmation toward something we cannot see. But its tragic form is in his visions of universal disaster...