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...burqa confiscates a woman??s existence. By and large, those who wear it are victims," said Fadela Amara, France’s Secretary of Urban Policy, and a Muslim woman herself. This is the going attitude toward the Islamic veil in France these days. Since 2004, French girls have been banned from wearing headscarves in state schools, and in January of this year, a French parliamentary commission recommended a partial ban on women wearing Islamic face veils in government offices, schools, on public transportation, and in hospitals. Such a ban would be discriminatory toward Muslim culture...
...first woman to speak at Class Day since 1994, when Lani C. Guinier ’71, then assistant attorney general for civil rights, was chosen. The speakers themselves send messages just as important as the contents of their speeches, and we believe that the selection of a woman??an extremely qualified, experienced, and talented woman??has the potential to inspire more than just Harvard women to achieve new heights of success...
...afterlife. All the Grim Reaper wants is to help her. But as tends to be the case in animation, the square-jawed guy (the doctor) and his band of flirty hangers-on are set on saving her life. A wistful, playful soundtrack accompanies the sweetly surreal chase through the woman??s final hours...
...gals.” Feminists in the 70s fought for the right to be called “women” instead of “girls” in acknowledgement of their status as independent, confident adults. But now the term “woman?? is so loaded with age connotations that when a friend recently told me he was “seeing a woman,” I thought he meant he was having an affair with someone at least 10 years older, maybe even married...
Maybe one day I will wake, look myself in the mirror, and finally be able to call myself a “woman?? without laughing about it. But until then, here’s to being a 20-year-old girl...