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...that they necessarily knew it, but a Marine platoon stumbled into a potential hornet's nest at 1:30 on Friday in Baghdad, at the al Hanif al Naaman Mosque in the Adhimiya district. Adhimiya is a bastion of the capital's Sunni Muslim minority, whose members have traditionally dominated Iraq's ruling elite both before and during Saddam Hussein's regime. And had the Marines been able to read the banners in Arabic held aloft by worshipers, or understand the sermon of Sheikh Ahmad al Kuwaisi booming out over loudspeakers, they might have been impressed with the content...
...Were Harvard students more interested in the Academy Awards than I had supposed? Curiosity piqued, I dashed to the House library’s magazine rack and discovered an Oscars edition of Entertainment Weekly so well-perused that the cover had almost come off. I groaned. Even at this bastion of independent thought, we had succumbed to the siren’s song of politicking, vamping and bad dresses (and worse jokes) that is the Academy Awards...
...centuries, Harvard served to educate exclusively a white male upper class. Women and people of color are still a small minority among tenured faculty, and the curriculum still frequently comes under attack for offering a Eurocentric, masculine, upper-class perspective. The Harvard Corporation itself has long been a bastion of traditional corporate homogeneity; in its history it has had only two women and one person of color among its members...
...John Cloud stated that the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) helps categorize "all the ways America is nuts." Since it is no longer politically correct to make racial slurs or joke about physical handicaps, it would appear that the last bastion of acceptable derision is mental illness. By poking fun at rare conditions such as fetishism, this article ends up stigmatizing the millions who suffer from the entire range of mental disorders defined in the DSM and trivializing the scientific advances for such disorders. It is regrettable that TIME could...
Airline customers are getting used to being charged extra for everything from paper tickets to onboard meals. But now the nickel-and-diming is reaching the last bastion of airline freebies: frequent-flyer flights...