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When I first saw a girl in my history section wearing a sign that said, “Ask me why I’m fasting,” I was disgusted. I wrote it off as a self-referential and misguided form of protest in the name of increasing wages for security officers at Harvard. I assumed I knew, and I didn?...
Last year’s French riots, continually cited by theocons as a warning sign of the coming religious wars, actually highlight how class is the main cause of European social strife. The rioters were not exclusively Muslim; they were, however, (almost) exclusively poor and mostly unemployed. The riots weren’t sparked by a religious issue, but by resentment of discrimination and endemic unemploymente—the rioters wore blue jeans, not Wahhabi robes...
...College’s top administrators and faculty gather in Lamont Forum Room to deliberate the fates of undergraduates whose lives behind Harvard’s ivy gates lie in the balance. With a red and yellow “Meeting In Progress. Please Do Not Disturb” sign hanging from the door, the room houses the Administrative Board—the committee charged with enforcing undergraduate academic regulations and standards of social conduct...
Hong Kong and China are only H&M's first stops in Asia. Three more stores are planned for Hong Kong this year, and two in Shanghai. As a sign of how China has come to dominate the Asian retail market, Japan has taken a backseat. H&M will open its first store there by 2008. Other possibilities, like Singapore, are in the works. "We're taking things slow to start out, but we're clearly not going into Asia for 10 stores," Persson explains. "The potential for the market is just too huge...
...doubtful that all--or even most--of those Palestinian women who sign up to become martyrs do so voluntarily. Some fall prey to male recruiters, who approach them on campus or through Internet chat rooms, making romantic advances that the women fall for. Many other women point to "secret reasons" that have little connection with religion and everything to do with private tragedy or shame. Some see becoming a suicide bomber as preferable to an arranged marriage, common in the Arab world. One teenager volunteered for suicide duty because her father refused to let her marry a boyfriend...