Word: veils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political persecution? Yes, say opposition M.P.s and feminist groups demanding that Canada grant refugee status to victims of sex-based persecution. The debate ensnared Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt, who reversed a decision denying asylum to a Saudi woman who said she feared punishment for refusing to wear a veil if she returned home. Valcourt now promises new guidelines to encompass women whose governments fail to protect them from domestic violence or persecution. Women's rights advocates insist that Canada go further and become the first country to enshrine in law refuge for abused women...
This is a part that should bring the highest returns of all. The managers operate behind a veil of secrecy under the fallacious pretext of losing competitive financial advantage. This argument is nothing less than an insult to all Harvard's alumni intelligence inasmuch that they never had any such advantage in the first place and if they had, they had lost it many point ago by their own hand to the point that they already became the laughing stock of Wall Street...
...going to take the veil, I snorted. My conviction that a successful law school career requires and examination of the theological origins an underpinnings of the law for a more comprehensive understanding and application has been growing. On a more pragmatic level, fashioning a hybrid of theology and law also seemed to be a canny professional move. I had cut loose any religious moorings during adolescence, succumbing only occasionally to bouts of Proustian introspections and Zen austerity. I had neither subscribed to the common Harvard utopian fantasies which too often involve communal dining on trestle tables in drafty halls...
...discovered Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell and Curtis Mayfield. I just swallowed it all up." As he was writing his debut album, his mother and brother died. Skin, as Lewis titled the album, became a record of his feelings: melancholy and vulnerability. When he sings, "Is my skin just a veil I'm wearing/ Protect me from the world," his languid baritone catches gently, and the beating rhythms wash over a listener like a wave...
Harvard Film Archive. Through the Veil of Exile with David Benchetrit in person at 7:30 p.m. Van der Keuken Films #3 at 9:30 p.m. Carpenter Center for the Visual ARts. $4 for students and seniors; $5 for general admission. In person specials...