Iraqi Students Set a New Course

Washington Post Foreign Service ^ | 8 2 2003 | Pamela Constable

[anglian]

BAGHDAD -- Two young women strolled arm in arm toward the university bus stop, giddy with relief that final exams were over. Around them surged a stream of students as diverse as it was high-spirited: girls in modest black veils or skin-tight fashion ensembles, trim-bearded Shiite and clean-shaven Sunni Muslim youths, minority Kurds and Christians.

[anglian]

"There is a huge difference now, like between the earth and the sky," said Yaser Abdul Majid, 20, a chemistry student. "The difference is that now, none of us will be killed for expressing our opinion."

[Irish Eyes]

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