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Moments later, late folksinger Noor Jehan's 1965 anti-India war song filled the air. Four decades after that song was written, as many Pakistanis now realize, it is the enemy within that poses the real threat. And Ismail Farid's wide-ranging collection of monochrome martial attire paid a somber-colored yet loud homage to those soldiers "who have lost their lives during past operations and the continuous terrorist attacks." Headgear ranged from stiff officers' hats to turbans coiled in razor wire. The makeup was smeared on faces to resemble battlefield camouflage and war wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion Week Comes to Pakistan Amid Mayhem | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...received a phone call from Benazir Bhutto days after Bhutto's historic election as the Muslim world's first female leader. "She called me up and said, 'I've just had a baby. I need to take oath. I need a green outfit. And I want wide shoulders.' " The shoulder pads got progressively bigger. "She really had a fixation about them." Khan then suggested that she wear a white scarf to crown the ensemble, displaying both colors of the Pakistani flag. In 1996, when Princess Diana visited Pakistan, Rizwan Beyg was commissioned to outfit her. "I actually dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion Week Comes to Pakistan Amid Mayhem | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

Many audience members, including Bernie Steinberg, the president and director of Harvard Hillel, acknowledged the wide implications that Sandel’s book will have...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sandel Takes on ‘Right Thing’ | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...have a strong ticket with experience working on a wide range of issues,” said Hysen, who has been active on the UC since his freshman year...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: UC Race Opens With Media Push | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...mouth” is only weakly strung together by the pale “forces.” Compare these lines with the Mitchell: “…Young man, / it is not your loving, even if your mouth / was forced wide open by your own voice—learn // to forget that passionate music. It will end.” Though Mitchell changes the syntax considerably, the line breaks and enjambments are absolutely breathtaking. Where Snow maintains that the voice opens the mouth Mitchell has the mouth open first, then the line break, thereafter the cause...

Author: By Adam L. Palay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revisiting Rilke's Translations | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

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