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...Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani, but both were vetoed by other permanent Security Council members. Washington's reluctance was due in part to South Korea's growing coziness with China and by Seoul's "sunshine policy" of engagement with Pyongyang. The U.S. is skeptical that Ban, long careful to avoid stepping on toes, would really be willing to challenge the entrenched interests inside the U.N. that are opposed to reform...
...attacks, especially after the rainy season when sewage seeps into water supplies. "If the students get sick," says teacher Tesfaye Birhanu, "they can't learn their lessons and think freely." Until recently, the four toilets shared by Gafft's 1,266 pupils were filthy, and girls like Genet Solomon avoided using them. "Before, I would get sick once a month," says Solomon, 12. Then the school built three simple pit latrines in cinder-block cubicles. A sanitation club began encouraging students to wash their hands after using the toilet and before meals, a simple way of reducing the risk...
...gauzed over. I have interviewed young women who say they feel so wanton wearing only a headscarf that they will adopt the niqab. Now even 6-year-olds are put into hijabs. Western culture - it is true - is wildly sexualized and lacking in restraint. But there are ways to avoid falling into that pit without withdrawing into the darkness of a niqab. The robe is a physical manifestation of the pernicious idea of women as carriers of original sin; it assumes that the sight of a cheek or a lock of hair turns Muslim men into predators. The niqab rejects...
...part to South Korea's growing coziness with China and by Seoul's "sunshine policy" of engagement with Pyongyang, which some Administration officials say has hindered efforts to get tough with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. The U.S. is skeptical that Ban, long careful to avoid stepping on toes, would really be willing to challenge the entrenched interests inside the U.N. that are opposed to reform...
When Van Epps met with SonyStyle's executive team to unveil the short list of smell contenders--carried in small glass vials in his metal lab briefcase--he asked each member to give personal preferences and professional assessments. He says that helps clients avoid having individual quirks (a hatred of apples caused by having to eat one every day after school or a resentment of violets because they call to mind being ditched on prom night) cloud the search for a suitable corporate scent. Each smelling session was limited to just a couple of samples, since the nose's ability...