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...religion as an excuse for the slow pace of reform. "The idea is to delay the reforms based on the idea that society wouldn't accept drastic changes," says Mohammad al-Qahtani, a reform advocate and professor at the Saudi Foreign Ministry's diplomatic training institute. Awadh al-Badi, a political scientist at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, says the reason that King Abdullah and the royal family are still cautious on women's rights is that they themselves are products of Saudi culture. "It's a generational thing," al-Badi says. "The King...
...Gangster, from Malaysian director Badi Hj. Azmi, is a standard exercise in macho auto-eroticism, but with extra horsepower. Malaysian punks race their souped-up cars on the public highways of the country?s capital - sort of The Fast and the Kuala Lumpurious. But it also interweaves three stories, making it a Crash with lots more fender-benders, and all in 79 zippy minutes. There?s also a scene in which a kidnapper rapes a sweet Muslim wife while her child?s in the room. No fatwas, please...
...State Ethics Commission fined Harvard lecturer Badi G. Foster $250 last week for a technical violation of the state's conflict of interest...
Another point of contention raised by some concentrators revolves around the case of Badi Foster, visiting associate professor of Afro-American Studies from the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Foster quickly developed a reputation within the department as one of Afro's prime attractions, an opinion shared by Southern as well as Foster's more enthusiastic boosters among the concentrators. An examination of student enrollment in Foster's courses also attests to his popularity; while only eight students took a fall course Foster offered on social policy and modernization, 64 students enrolled in two of his spring courses, Afro...
...consistent with the ideology of this country that William Worthy isn't a household name in America," Badi G. Foster, visiting associate professor of Afro-American Studies recently told his seminar on media and political development in Afro-American communities. However Worthy's recent book, The Rape of Our Neighborhoods, may finally cause America to take notice of the 56-year old journalist who terms his political philosophy, "Anti-Colonialist, Anti-Militarist, Anti-Imperialist...