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...coming only slowly after a person has experienced enough prejudice to cause harm or impede success. This may help explain why so many highly successful people, like Summers, are not sensitive to the tremendous obstacle that prejudice still poses for women. So what lessons have we learned in the aftermath of Summers’ comments? First, speech that categorizes people based on race, religion, or gender as innately inferior—or possibly innately inferior—is deeply harmful, indecent, and always wrong. Each of us is gifted with a complexity of magnificent abilities and drives, all molded...
...Harvard community pieces itself back together in the aftermath of the Summers resignation, murmurs of too much Corporation secrecy and a fundamental disconnect between the Corporation and individual schools abound. As part of the healing process, the Corporation must send a clear message that it cares about faculty and students. Advisory committees will not suffice...
That's fine with everyone, as long as al-Sadr keeps his shock troops in check. In the immediate aftermath of the Samarra bombing, he was hearteningly subdued, ordering his followers to refrain from attacking Sunnis. After having participated in the orgy of anti-Sunni violence in the 24 hours following the attack, al-Sadr's fighters gradually responded to their leader's call. In a few places, his supporters were even credited with protecting Sunni mosques. For the more optimistic observers, those events seemed to confirm the notion that it is better to have al-Sadr inside the Iraqi...
...behavior. In areas where al-Sadr's fighters hold sway, they use brute force to impose a strict Islamic code. They are frequently accused of kidnapping and assassinating those who resist them. Many Mahdi Army fighters have been absorbed into the Iraqi security forces and police, and in the aftermath of the Samarra bombing, many police vehicles in Baghdad were openly flying Mahdi Army colors--black and green. Sunni groups say policemen did nothing to stop the violence last week. In some places, they claim, policemen joined the mobs to kill Sunnis and defile their mosques...
...strange aftermath of the Danish cartoon scandal, the most insightful and incisive critique of the affair and the subsequent reaction came from within the Muslim world itself. Jordanian journalist Jihad Momani, in a piece for the Jordanian tabloid al-Shihan—for which Momani has been subsequently vilified—posed the following question: “What brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage taker slashing the throat of his victim in front of the cameras, or a suicide bomber who blows himself up during a wedding ceremony...