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Nov. 11th, 2002 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sophiaserpentiaDarn it, I actually used to *like* David Vitter.
from No Child Unrecruited
"But when Shea-Keneally insisted on an explanation, she was in for an even bigger surprise: The recruiters cited the No Child Left Behind Act, President Bush's sweeping new education law passed earlier this year. There, buried deep within the law's 670 pages, is a provision requiring public secondary schools to provide military recruiters not only with access to facilities, but also with contact information for every student -- or face a cutoff of all federal aid.
"'I was very surprised the requirement was attached to an education law,' says Shea-Keneally. 'I did not see the link.'
"The military complained this year that up to 15 percent of the nation's high schools are 'problem schools' for recruiters. In 1999, the Pentagon says, recruiters were denied access to 19,228 schools. Rep. David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana who sponsored the new recruitment requirement, says such schools 'demonstrated an anti-military attitude that I thought was offensive.'"
In a lighter vein, this from Frederick's of Riyadh
"On Wednesday at 11:30 p.m., I walked to the mall connected to my hotel to verify that there is a 'women only' lingerie section in Harvey Nichols. ... The three-story mall was so chockablock with designer stilettos, bondage boots, transparent blouses and glittering gowns with plunging necklines that it would have made Las Vegas blush. .... I made some notes on Harvey Nichols's lingerie apartheid -- racks of sheer zebra and leopard Dolce & Gabbana nighties and lacy Donna Karan items -- and Mr. Jubeir and I headed back to the hotel. Suddenly, four men bore down on us, two in white robes, one in a brown policeman's uniform and one in a floor-length brown A-line skirt (not a good look). They pointed to my neck and hips, and the embarrassed diplomat explained that I had been busted by the vice squad.
"'They say they can see the outline of your body,' he translated. 'They say they welcome you to the mall, which is a sign of our modernity, but that we are also proud of our tradition and faith, and you must respect that.' The police took my passport and began making notes about the crime, oblivious to the irony of detaining me in front of the window of another lingerie shop displaying a short lacy red slip."
from No Child Unrecruited
"But when Shea-Keneally insisted on an explanation, she was in for an even bigger surprise: The recruiters cited the No Child Left Behind Act, President Bush's sweeping new education law passed earlier this year. There, buried deep within the law's 670 pages, is a provision requiring public secondary schools to provide military recruiters not only with access to facilities, but also with contact information for every student -- or face a cutoff of all federal aid.
"'I was very surprised the requirement was attached to an education law,' says Shea-Keneally. 'I did not see the link.'
"The military complained this year that up to 15 percent of the nation's high schools are 'problem schools' for recruiters. In 1999, the Pentagon says, recruiters were denied access to 19,228 schools. Rep. David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana who sponsored the new recruitment requirement, says such schools 'demonstrated an anti-military attitude that I thought was offensive.'"
In a lighter vein, this from Frederick's of Riyadh
"On Wednesday at 11:30 p.m., I walked to the mall connected to my hotel to verify that there is a 'women only' lingerie section in Harvey Nichols. ... The three-story mall was so chockablock with designer stilettos, bondage boots, transparent blouses and glittering gowns with plunging necklines that it would have made Las Vegas blush. .... I made some notes on Harvey Nichols's lingerie apartheid -- racks of sheer zebra and leopard Dolce & Gabbana nighties and lacy Donna Karan items -- and Mr. Jubeir and I headed back to the hotel. Suddenly, four men bore down on us, two in white robes, one in a brown policeman's uniform and one in a floor-length brown A-line skirt (not a good look). They pointed to my neck and hips, and the embarrassed diplomat explained that I had been busted by the vice squad.
"'They say they can see the outline of your body,' he translated. 'They say they welcome you to the mall, which is a sign of our modernity, but that we are also proud of our tradition and faith, and you must respect that.' The police took my passport and began making notes about the crime, oblivious to the irony of detaining me in front of the window of another lingerie shop displaying a short lacy red slip."
