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...shots. Allen: He didn't want to bring those shoes. And tell him this too. We play so much, are on our feet so many nights, that when we go to a restaurant, I take my shoes off. Garnett: He don't wear socks either. Allen: I keep my socks on, but I'm just saying you might look under the table and I don't have shoes on. Paul don't wear no socks...
...Turkey's first fleet of biplanes. My grandmother was what's called an "Ataturk girl" - like many others, she was put on a train to Germany, on her own at age 13, and told to study because the nascent republic needed educated women. Needless to say, they did not wear head scarves. Indeed, the fervor with which they spurned them explains a lot about the conflict now, as the government seeks to lift a ban on wearing them at universities...
...Predictably, my great-aunt didn't cope well with the changes. To her, Ataturk's most profound legacy was to get women out of their veils and their homes. She was unable to understand why anyone would choose to wear a head scarf. For her, being modern and wearing a head scarf were incompatible; my live-and-let-live attitude infuriated...
...Conn., for example, assess each athlete's risk for knee injury, paying particular attention to girls, who are six times as likely as boys to injure their knees for a number of reasons, including basic anatomy, muscle strength and hormonal differences. The most vulnerable athletes are then required to wear a bracelet while training as a warning to coaches to take it slow...
...danger posed by religious conservatism to the freedom and autonomy of women in Turkey. Proponents of the repeal claim that the ban has cruelly forced women to choose between their faith and educational future. But such a claim presumes that women are in fact making an individual choice to wear their headscarf. While many certainly claim to, such choices neglect the backdrop of a strongly patriarchal and oppressive religious climate in which gender-biased practices constrain rather than enable a woman’s autonomy. By limiting women’s capacity for self-reflection and free action, this backdrop...