Soldier wins fight on hair

On the international standards front:

A military court has granted a male German solider the right to wear a ponytail. The 18-year-old soldier went to the court in Munich after he was forced to cut off his ponytail, which was nearly 10 inches long. ...

The court backed the solider, saying the different rules that applied to hair styles of male and female soldiers were "incomprehensible," the magazine [Spiegel] reported.

F.A.Z. Weekly June 24, 2005 (final issue)