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Kumquats. Ice dancing. Middle-aged people in love. College students who wear pantsuits. Addressing someone with the wrong gender. That guy in section who responds to the reading with passion and insight. Realizing you’ve been mispronouncing your roommate’s last name for the past three years...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Generation Awkward | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...tenuous connection to consensus reality when at 19 she became a pop-culture icon as Princess Leia in Star Wars. Fisher says that she hated Leia's Cinnabon hair ("Give me a hairstyle that further widens my already wide face!") and that George Lucas wouldn't let her wear a bra; instead, he made her tape down her breasts with gaffer's tape. She writes about marriage to Paul Simon and sex with Chris Dodd and meeting Bob Dylan. When Dylan showed up at a party wearing sunglasses and a parka, Fisher said, "Thank God you wore that, Bob, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princess Diaries | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...dances, however, it takes two to tango and our undergraduate population must take a stand. We must inform ourselves and be open to understanding the charities that we support. We should be empowered, not overwhelmed, by the charitable opportunities we have. Charity events should not merely be hats to wear to feel good the following weekend when we drink the day away outside Harvard Stadium. Let us remember that we are not limited, nor overwhelmed, but empowered every day by charitable opportunities and we should embrace, rather than disparage or ignore, the forms of social responsibility that ultimately create...

Author: By Jason Y. Shah and Bianca A. Verma | Title: Taking a Stand | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

...question of "is making yoga allowed?" does appears on Muslim web sites, and I've found myself wondering just who the doubting yogis might have been in all my many classes. The quiet types taking up the back row, who wear deliberately plain workout clothes? The chatty, devout housewives who got bored during the breathing exercises? That the forums' experts and mediators rule so contradictorily - some rule haram, while many more judge yoga harmless - suggests there is no fixed Islamic position on yoga, just as there is no fixed type of yoga itself. The place of yoga in the lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should a Pious Muslim Practice Yoga? | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

...Naughty Knickers and Pious Pilgrims. While they controlled the streets of Kadhamiya, the Mahdi Army had imposed a harshly puritanical interpretation of Islam on the residents. Women were required to wear the form-obscuring black cloaks known as abayas. Today, in a sign of the freedom felt in the neighborhood, a storefront displays sexy women's underwear in its windows, just a stone's throw from the great shrine of Imam Kadhim. Its owner told me business was good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Reasons for Hope in Iraq | 11/29/2008 | See Source »

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