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Conceivably, all that might happen. As Operation Imposing Law got under way on Feb. 14, there were some signs that Shi'ite militias might be reducing their attacks on Sunnis. Al-Sadr has ordered his Mahdi Army to lie low and avoid direct confrontation with American troops. Al-Sadr himself and several of his top commanders are believed to have left for Iran. But few in Baghdad doubt that he will be back. "He is just bending to the wind because he knows his fighters can't face the Americans," says Hussain al-Moed, a rival Shi'ite cleric...
...side of the biblical-text wars; in Princeton, N.J. A graceful linguist and world authority on translating the New Testament from the original Greek, he aimed to create a more modern, accessible text. Among its revisions: gender-neutral language, the elimination of thees and thous, and syntactical shifts to avoid confusion in meaning. A sentence that Metzger's team edited as "Once I received a stoning," for example, had previously read, "Once I was stoned...
...hands, who love to discover such secrets and publish a way for everyone to get free (and stolen) music.”If the story of the radio tape has any meaning, it is that free music is not necessarily stolen music. We taped the radio not only to avoid paying for songs but also to gain exposure to new music that could be purchased later.If listeners were never punished for their home recording in the days before mp3 software, they should not be prevented from continuing a well-established practice simply because technology has changed.DRM technology is far from...
...Crimson, Director of the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning James D. Wilkinson ’65 wrote that the Bok Center, which the UC said was a “partner,” played no such role. We sympathize with the UC’s desire to avoid the quicksand of University Hall bureaucracy, but its failure to consult teachers and administrators who would be affected by the hotline, and who could likely provide valuable input, is alarming. Even if it were only a UC initiative, broad input would have only served to increase its legitimacy. Instead, lingering...
...We’ll take it.”Brine’s 23rd score of the season—her eighth game-winning goal—capped a dramatic comeback for the Crimson, which was forced to notch three goals in the final period of regulation to avoid the upset loss.In all, the team scored four times in a 20-minute, 10-second span. “We got a little careless in the second period and dug ourselves a hole,” Stone said. “And fortunately we were able to come...