Word: headdress
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...terrace is crammed with young men, some in traditional cotton robes and Bedouin headdress, others in Western jeans and T shirts. They are watching teenage drivers peeling rubber through traffic, calling friends on cell phones and discussing Osama. Sipping cappuccinos and downing milk shakes, they admit to mixed feelings about last month's devastating attacks on the U.S. because of the innocent lives that were taken. They even wonder whether it was really Osama who did it ("I hope that it was," says one). Mostly they express glee that the strikes made the U.S. pay a price for what they...
...anyone needs to fill half a day and requires only comfortable shoes and a wad of George Washingtons. While no one openly begs here and Cubans are almost universally polite, they're also hungry. If you ask directions or take a picture of an old woman in flowered headdress smoking a cigar, be prepared to fork over a dollar...
...museum's exhibition, though, is a 104-cm black basalt statue on loan from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. One of the best-preserved representations of a Ptolemaic queen, it has been identified as Cleopatra VII. The figure is holding a double cornucopia and wearing a headdress decorated with three cobras-symbols associated only with...
...weeks ago for allegedly devising bombs to be used in terrorist attacks, was 13 years old and studying at an Islamic boarding school three hours from his village in east Java. "I brought him his favorite food," says Rukhanah, a 58-year-old wearing a traditional white Islamic headdress. "But he politely told me that he was fasting, even though it wasn't during the fasting month. I cried then, feeling proud but sad that my very young boy chose to live piously. How can you not be proud when your offspring takes to religion...
...face, threw the magazine down on his desk, ranted about how we were out to destroy him, then marched around his desk and shook his fist in my face. "People remember other people for one thing," he ranted on. "They remember Calvin Coolidge for wearing an Indian headdress. They remember Arthur Godfrey for buzzing the tower at Teterboro Airport. They will remember me for posing for a clothing magazine...