61.   Schools for girls have been closed and men, forced to wear beards, have been dragged off the streets for prayers.

62.   Taliban rules require athletes to wear beards and forbid shorts.

63.   Sufi Mohammed, whose fundamentalist group is orchestrating the siege, wants the judges recalled, saying they are not devout Muslims because they do not wear beards.

64.   Taliban leaders have barred most women from work and girls from school, banned music and ordered all men to wear beards.

65.   The city threatened the officers with termination and other sanctions because of their beliefs, which include wearing beards, according to the lawsuit.

66.   The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit Friday on behalf of a Federal Express delivery driver who was fired for wearing a beard.

67.   The Federal Express beard policy includes an exception for anyone who needs to wear a beard for medical reasons, but not for religious reasons, the suit says.

68.   The guards maintain that Sunni Muslim practice requires men to wear beards.

69.   The Supreme Court today refused to let Newark, N.J., authorities bar two Muslim policemen from wearing beards.

70.   The Taliban also force men to wear beards and have outlawed most entertainment, including television and music.