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...adulthood teaching Islamic law and history in various Arab universities, he was nonetheless able to adjust quickly to the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq. As an Islamic scholar of note, few questioned his right to lead the AMS, and he organized the clerics' body into a stridently anti-American organization that gave voice to the Sunni community's anxiety and resentment over the loss of their centuries-old grip on political power...
...professional schools or to success in the business world naturally have an additional function). Extracurricular activities provide ample opportunity for devotion to other matters. One effect of the proposal would be to render the extracurricular curricular, thus undermining the curriculum. For these reasons, the proposal strikes me as anti-academic, even anti-intellectual. PETER J. BURGARD Cambridge, Mass. Nov. 15, 2006 The writer is a Professor of German...
Around the world today, anti-Americanism is very much in vogue. In a Pew Global Attitudes Project poll released last June, favorable opinions of the United States among European citizens ranged from a dismally slim 23 percent among Spaniards, to a lackluster 56 percent in Great Britain. The last few weeks alone have seen German lawyers, buoyed by anti-American sentiment, file suit against recently resigned Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for committing war crimes under international law. But from where do such sentiments arise?One reason frequently bandied about is that, in autocratic states like Saudi Arabia, students...
...bill would deny welfare and other benefits even to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens - rights supposedly given them under the 14th Amendment. Latino groups, who were only recently being wooed by Republican candidates, were left aghast at the onslaught, calling it "a hate campaign" against immigrants and "anti-human being" to boot...
...conservative areas as well, and often after being largely ignored by national Democratic strategists. In the House, they include Kentucky's John Yarmuth (who supports universal health care and affirmative action), New Hampshire's Carol Shea-Porter (she was once escorted out of a Bush event for wearing an anti-Bush t-shirt) and ' target='_blank'>Dave Loebsack (an anti-war liberal academic) in Iowa. The same is true of the Senate, where the new Democratic members include Vermont's Bernie Sanders, a socialist...