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...subservience to no one but their god. Unless all these women are self-denying liars manipulated by radical males, shouldn't their interpretation of headscarf symbolism be regarded as at least as legitimate as hijab and niqab opponents? The problem with symbols is they are exactly as potent or weak as the passion invested in them - and both sides of this debate see some powerful symbolism in headscarves...
...Thursday night, and the tailgate moved from the flooded Ohiri Field to a crowded parking lot, the signs were clear that this year’s party was going to be a damp squib. Alas, Saturday fulfilled expectations. While Harvard and Yale students made the best of the weak hand they were dealt and should be applauded for their efforts, neither the tight rules nor their shoddy implementation proved conducive to the kind of fun and successful tailgate experienced in years past...
...whose arguments on Common Article III of the Geneva Convention were ultimately adopted by the Court. Katyal said that Tribe and Meltzer helped him practice before the actual oral arguments. After one session in which Tribe told him that his case was strong substantively but his performance a bit weak, Katyal hired a former “Cheers” actor for stage training. “The guy came in and said, ‘Practice your oral argument in front of me, but do it holding my hand,’” Katyal recalled to loud...
Even though the city of Miami has the third worst poverty rate in the nation, there have been few credible attempts to help the lowest earners find housing. One problem is weak government oversight of development--a sign, some complain, that Miami's sun-soaked complacency has addled its political leaders as well. "Planning is disdained as the enemy here," says Gihan Perera, director of the Miami Workers Center. Local anger boiled over recently at a housing scandal that Perera's group helped the Miami Herald expose: Miami-Dade's government housing agency paid millions of dollars to politically connected...
...Western Branch High School in Chesapeake, Va., he stepped into a depleted secondary and was called on to start games with a cast protecting a broken hand. He was then squeezed out of a starter’s role as a sophomore, before shifting around from corner to weak-side safety. Tanner would start again, obviously. But he didn’t make a fuss either...