Word: womans
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...modern, non-Muslim, American woman who finds the idea of halal products appealing. As a health-conscious vegetarian, I'd really appreciate a new source of gelatin-free vitamins, cosmetics without animal fats and a purer quality of food products. And hotels without loud discos or guests wearing bathing suits in the restaurants? Many of us non-Muslims like the sound of this. Bring it on! Roxanne Felfe, HEIDELBERG, GERMANY...
Your article about Michelle Obama was delightful. There is no doubt that she is truly special in many ways. However, I can't escape my negative feelings regarding the angry person first presented to us many months ago. How on earth can the woman represented in your article be the same person who worshipped in a church under the auspices of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? It still pains me that she could bring her children into such a negative, anti-American environment. Bette Hirsh Levy TARZANA, CALIF...
...lobbied for the creation of public beaches along Lake Michigan, in part so working-class residents would have access to clean bathing water. In 1913 the beaches became the site of controversy when women's rights activists used them to protest the legally mandated but voluminous "swimming costumes" - one woman stripped down to her bloomers to swim because it was impossible, she said, to swim in the required skirt. A judge ruled that her attire was not indecent. (Check out a story about the new sport of stand-up paddle surfing...
Bush, George H. W. •bikini-clad young woman plops in lap of, after which speedo-sporting young man sidles up to wife...
...hard to portray her speeches as those of someone committed to the view that all women and minority judges have essentially different perspectives than white male judges. "No one person, judge or nominee will speak in a female or people-of-color voice," Sotomayor said in her "wise Latina woman" speech, citing Justice Clarence Thomas as representing a "part but not the whole of the African-American thought on many subjects." In other speeches, she has emphasized that her view of justice requires understanding the different perspectives of the clashing parties rather than imposing her individual perspective. In a public...