Word: veils
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...Coalition then contacts the Anti-Defamation League and, because these cases typically affect Muslim women who wear a veil, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The group also contacts a relevant state civil rights agency and the federal government if necessary, he said...
...There is a veil of total equality and it is even more important to think about the history of gender at Harvard and how that might affect the current situation for women—what does it mean that for many centuries it was majority men?” she says...
...forced to wait in the dark for the results of their visa applications, with no indication of when the decision will be made. This indefinite delay is frustrating as many students cannot work, study or make reasonably informed decisions for their future. The Department of Homeland Security must not veil administrative disorganization with the pretense of national security. To drag their feet when students can be screened in a timely manner is unacceptable. We hope the Bush administration receives Summers’ recommendations with open arms and takes decisive action to maintain the esteem of American institutions and keep this...
...from more affluent areas. Resignation and hopelessness have sent criminal activity and incivility soaring, and the banlieues' physical isolation makes them islands of anger, apathy and pain. "I've seen guys turn to fundamentalist Islam as the only positive, redeeming option available," reports Cazenave. "Some women start wearing a veil just to get their parents off their backs or escape sexual harassment" from men who assume unveiled women are inviting abuse. Kedadouche, a member of France's High Council of Integration, cites his own recent encounter with social breakdown. Just this month he resigned from the list of Paris-area...
Songs on Bows are cinematic—thick, sweeping layers of piano, guitar and organ produce compelling vignettes that dwarf the simplicity of lyrics. Hamilton Leithauser’s vocals glide and soar behind a scratchy veil, adding poignancy to the mundane actions and thoughts he sings about. On break-up lament “The North Pole,” he sounds on the verge of shattering as he howls, “Everybody knows / That’s the way it goes.” But the childlike “New Year’s Eve?...