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			 / December 8, 2010 2:56 pm 
			
Liberia’s Next Top Model?
 
		
			
In July 2005, less than two years into its tenure, members of NGTL, Liberia’s post-conflict transitional government, were found traveling the impoverished streets of Monrovia in brand new Jeep Grand Cherokees. When civil servants, whose salaries had been frozen for the past 18 months due to lack of government funds, found that the NGTL had spent $2 million buying each [...]
		

 	
 	
		 
		

		
										
Thinly Veiled1
						
			 / March 18, 2010 7:21 am 
			
Thinly Veiled
 
		
			
With the help of the French, the veil—also known more accurately in various forms as the burqa, hijab or niqab—has conquered both the bra and the bikini as the world’s most contentious piece of women’s apparel.