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...while I was reporting on the civil war then raging in the Indonesian province of Aceh, rebels of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (G.A.M.) opened fire on a car carrying me and three colleagues, almost killing us. Afterwards, furious, I called and text messaged my G.A.M. contact, code-named "Iskander," to tell him to get his trigger-happy men to stand down. Iskander's role as a G.A.M. operative was secret-until I unwittingly blew his cover that day. When I called, he was being questioned by the police, who saw my incriminating messages arrive on his phone. Iskander...
...niqab or a full-body burqa - have been caught in a storm of debate in Europe. As a British citizen, Awan still has the right to wear whatever she wants. Several German states, by contrast, prohibit Muslim teachers from wearing head scarves in class. In parts of Belgium, civil servants are banned from wearing head scarves at work, and the Dutch government plans to make it illegal to wear the niqab or the burqa anywhere in public. (The estimated number of women in the Netherlands who wear either runs in the dozens...
...provoked musings on what-if scenarios. What if the Bush Administration dealt with the world as it really was, not as the Administration wanted it to be? We would not be in the position we are in today. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in a raging civil war, the international goodwill following 9/11 has been wasted, and we have a huge deficit and a military that is being ground down. Even if this Administration could push a replay button, the result would be like the movie Groundhog Day--an endless repeat of the same mistakes...
...down discipline didn’t seem to be working; students were unengaged and not impressed. What was a president to do? Perhaps angry young white males found new outlets for their aggression—the Civil War—because the next four presidents didn’t encounter much opposition. It wasn’t until Charles W. Eliot, class of 1853, took office in 1869 that the University actually reigned in and took...
Less than a week ago, the long chain that began with a crotchety “Master” was formally introduced to its newest link, a Civil War historian with a reputation for fostering community...