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...extended. But recently the Sadr camp has said that it might end the cease-fire. On January 18, a spokesman for Sadr in the religious capital of Najaf issued a statement warning that "the rationale for the decision to extend the freeze of the Mahdi Army is beginning to wear thin." Is the U.S. alarmed? It is not - and that is alarming...
...this battle between two teams itching to prove their worth—and Yale is not making it any easier. The team has scheduled tonight’s game to be a “Bulldog Blue-Out,” encouraging fans to pack the stands and wear Yale’s team color.Harvard has been one of the Ivy’s hottest-shooting teams this season, scoring in 46.2 percent of their shots, bested only by Cornell. Unfortunately for the Crimson, the Bulldogs are just behind at 44.7 percent, so shooting defense will be key in tonight?...
...spoken more in French,” said Anna Kosovsky, a senior at Bowdoin College. “I think she expressed herself much better in French.”Audience members asked Royal to address more controversial topics, such as whether students should be allowed to wear turbans in school. “We respect all religions but nobody can trouble somebody else with exterior signs of religion,” responded Royal.When asked about Quebec sovereignty, Royal brushed aside the question, despite having supported it in the past.“It’s in the program...
...Prime Minister Erdogan, an often blustery and impatient politician, has done little to ease the tension. "If [the headscarf] is indeed a political symbol, does that make it a crime to wear it? Is wearing a symbol a crime?," he said at the start of this debate last month. To secularists, his words confirmed their worst fears - that the headscarf is not an expression of religious piety but of a political movement that ultimately seeks to impose Islamic law. Thousands of secularists, mostly women, took to the streets in the capital of Ankara last week chanting "Turkey will not become...
Still, there are holdouts. Most police departments continue to outlaw beards, claiming they make officers look unprofessional. The management of the New York Yankees also refuses to let players wear facial hair below the upper lip. And then there are unspoken prohibitions in many parts of the corporate world. "I should have a right to wear my own facial hair as I please," says Justin Wolff, 32, a student at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, who hopes to keep his short beard when he starts working next year. "But I am not going to risk...