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...presidential candidates from the Class of ’08, Tom D. Hadfield and Ryan A. Petersen, saw their supporters out in force at the Science Center, sporting bright t-shirts and enormous posters. Campaigners faced off directly and tried to out-shout one another. Supporters of Ali A. Zaidi ’08 began postering early yesterday morning, following a midnight kickoff event that drew a crowd of over 50 to the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Zaidi spent a slice of the $400 the Undergraduate Council (UC) allots per presidential ticket to buy two 10-pound pies from...
...faith experience was beneficial; she's the major mover in the school's values program. "We want our students to see that the world is not limited to what goes on at this school," she says. "We'd like them to make friends and see new things." Deputy Principal Ali Kak says the school fosters the idea that being a good Muslim and a good Australian are complementary. "Our mission is to contribute to society in a positive way." There are 1,800 students at the school, established in 1989. There's no more room. Posted around the school...
...Principal Dr. Intaj Ali stresses Malek Fahd's motto: Knowledge is Light & Work is Worship. He reads out the four items from the previous week's school newsletter: a student has won a state-wide competition for her Harmony Day poster, a local newspaper's front page features Malek Fahd's Remembrance Day ceremony, blood was donated and there's a bicycle safety message. "These are normal Aussie kids, doing normal things," says Dr. Ali, whose staff is 40% non-Muslim. "We don't have the ghetto mentality here. We want the students to experience the full gamut of life...
...there is no hiding the fact that this is, above all, a diplomatic mission. A meeting Tuesday in Ankara with Turkey's head of religious affairs, Ali Bardakoglu, will be a chance for Benedict to try to definitively close the two-month fallout from his provocative remarks about Islam and the prophet Muhammad during a lecture at a German university. Many have tried to predict what the Pope might say about Islam, but most Vatican sources assure TIME that the Turkey trip will most definitely not be the occasion for a provocative follow-up to his University of Regensburg speech...
...poet, sounding like a lunatic and not caring whether the West likes him. But Iran has multiple power centers. There's an election next month, for example, in which a reformist former President is challenging a fundamentalist cleric to join the Assembly of Experts that oversees Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. About 70% of the population is under 30, and there are at least 70,000 active blogs expressing all sorts of aspirations of a diverse people, including ones by the President (ahmadinejad.ir) and Supreme Leader (khamenei.ir...