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...delicate dilemma of black-Jewish relations was boiling beneath the surface of our controversy,” West wrote of his feud with Summers in his 2004 book “Democracy Matters...
...orbit around it, with a third orbiter set to arrive next week. Scrapping the Europa mission would be an even greater failure of imagination since the Jovian moon is widely considered the solar system's most tantalizing extraterrestrial place, with what may be a warm, salty, organic ocean churning beneath a relatively thin rind of water ice. Life not only could exist there but, to hear at least some exobiologists tell it, it should...
...places like TT the Bear’s and The Middle East—where established groups and indie bands alike can perform—but there are also clubs where you can catch that chick from Toscanini’s doing some wailing from behind a piano. Nestled beneath Law School-favorite, Cambridge Common, home to one of the best beer selections in the area, the Lizard Lounge just might be the coziest place in town to catch a show. Its crowded “stage” —a loosely defined floor space bordered on three...
...have gone straight to Capitol Hill to squelch regulatory efforts. In June 2003 Edward Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, introduced an amendment to mandate 100% inspection of airplane cargo. While airline passengers walk through metal detectors and have all their bags screened, the 6 billion pounds of cargo traveling beneath them each year is subject only to spot inspections by the feds. The government leaves it up to air carriers and the companies that forward freight to the carriers to screen their regular cargo customers...
...came in the context of a history of Shi'ite-Sunni enmity. The roots of the sectarian divide lie in a schism that arose shortly after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. Under Saddam, communal hostilities in Iraq were suppressed, their very existence denied. Beneath the surface, though, relations between the two sects have always been tainted by prejudice and discrimination. Although Shi'ites make up the majority in Iraq, the country was long ruled by a Sunni lite, often under the patronage of a foreign power, like the Ottoman and British empires. Sunnis historically...