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...advertisements that accompanied this crusade against religious freedom play on this fear, and reveal how thoroughly it has stifled reason. One picture depicts seven imposing black minarets pinning the Swiss flag to the ground, with a Muslim woman clad in full Muslim garb at the forefront. Besides the fact that the minarets depicted are the wrong color and that there are only four existing minarets in Switzerland, the picture does not just represent radical Islamic practices as a threat to Switzerland, but rather Islam itself as a threat to Switzerland...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Swiss Mess | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

Aggregating relevant information is the first step in the UC’s plan to reform the process of room reservations, which Black Students Association President Spencer H. Hardwick ’11, an inactive Crimson news editor, called “complicated” and “bureaucratic...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC Debuts Online Campus Room Reservation Tool | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

With the advent of online CyberMonday sales and more extended Black Friday weekend deals, the focus of stores nationwide is now shifting from a one-day shopping splurge to a more drawn-out holiday shopping season, according to a Nov. 25 New York Times article. Some stores around the country are looking to increase revenue with more sales through the coming weeks...

Author: By Ike Greenstein and NORA A. TUFANO, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Retailers Experience Low-Key Black Friday in Square | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...movie opens with an elderly tattoo artist imprinting the image of a dragon onto a mob boss. As he hacks away at the mobster’s skin in vivid onscreen detail, a telegram arrives filled with black dust. The old man recoils in horror, explaining that the last time he saw such a letter, the mocking laughter of his employers was “drowned in blood.” Suddenly, a series of goons are inexplicably beheaded, halved, and cut limb by limb in rapid succession. No sword or swordsman is visible, only swoosh sounds and silver flickers...

Author: By Alex E. Traub, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ninja Assassin | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...another Notre Dame season is gone, and so is another coach. In Weis' last game, on Saturday night, Notre Dame lost to Stanford, 45-38. Outlined against a black November sky, Weis, who'd had a botched gastric bypass procedure and hobbles on bad knees, seemed broken - another man who couldn't bring salvation to the Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong with Notre Dame Football? | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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