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...weirdest of all - and I'm betraying my professional bias here - it celebrates critics. It's not just that more than 30 million people watch judges Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson dispense music criticism (if "Dawg, that was all over the place for me" counts as criticism). The show also turns even nonvoting viewers into critics, arguing who deserves success and what makes a "good" performance. Week after week, a society that is not terribly self-reflective asks itself, through Idol, what it likes...
...have to crawl when we're down there, I can't do it," said my colleague Ghaith Abdul Ahad...
...Bulukumba's Padang village, divine mandate goes beyond the four bylaws. Over the past year, village chief Andi Rukman Abdul Jabbar, whose office door bears a sign barring women without headscarves from entering, has taken it upon himself to implement caning as punishment for adultery, gambling and drinking. (Similar penalties exist in the Sumatran province of Aceh, population 4 million, where legislators are now considering hand amputation in cases of theft.) So far, three people have been caned in Padang, while another was kicked out of the village for stealing. "In 2005, we used to have an incidence of theft...
...imported EFPs. The intelligence analyst at the briefing said there was no involvement by the Iraqi government at any level. But as proof of Iranian meddling in Iraq the briefing cited a raid in which weapons, maps, inventory sheets and two Iranian agents were seized at the compound of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Hakim heads the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the largest party in Iraq's governing coalition...
...education plan was announced on Sunday by Taliban chief spokesman Abdul Hai Muthmahien, who phoned the Associated Press to announce that the movement planned to spend $1 million to build schools in six provinces in which it had gained a foothold. "Taliban are not against education," he said. "The Taliban want Shariah [Islamic law] education." He also said that schools for girls would follow later, a promise that rings hollow considering that during the six years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, not a single girl was allowed to attend school...