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...sometimes the freedom to ask any question results in questions that do not adequately challenge the speaker, inviting outbursts from disrespectful members of the audience. While no one is ever barred from asking a question, the IOP remains committed to making the Forum a venue in which the only barrier between an audience member and a world leader is the courage to step up to the microphone. Giving preference to particular groups or people undermines the premise of an open dialogue on which the Forum is founded...
Complaints about barriers, literal and figurative, deluged Shahina Siddiqui, president of the nonprofit Islamic Social Services Association, as she surveyed women at mosques across the U.S. She is producing a booklet advising imams to "make mosques more sister-friendly" by, among other things, giving women a larger role in policymaking. "There are women who are more conservative, and they should be accommodated," says Siddiqui. But, she adds, "that should not be a barrier to those who want to participate in a more open space...
...people sharing a double split the cost? What if one wants the service and the other does not? What if one cannot afford it? Hiring someone to clean dorm rooms is a convenience, but it is also an obvious display of wealth that would establish a perceived, if unspoken, barrier between students of different economic means...
...news for the actual spies. No more James Bond, no more Ethan Hunt, and certainly no more xXx. Using technology as an insulating barrier makes sense from a certain viewpoint, but Keefe argues that the government’s reliance on signals intelligence at the expense of human intelligence—“old fashioned, cloak and dagger, man-on-the-ground spying”—has ominous implications for national security in the present...
...professors did offer several explanations. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture Toshiko Mori said that women’s desire to raise families had traditionally represented a barrier to their advancement in the design fields—but she expressed optimism that this might be changing...