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...inaction following last July's bombings of commuter trains in Mumbai. Brahma Chellaney, a professor at the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi, says there are bigger issues to overcome once the mourning has passed. "A normal relationship is not going to happen unless it's founded on closer economic and energy integration," he says. Perhaps, but at least the dialogue is no longer as easy to derail as trains...
...newfound piety of University of Indonesia student Lintang Anisa, however, came not from Saudi Arabia but from closer to home. In high school, Anisa lived what she calls a "hedonist" lifestyle, never praying five times a day as is required by Islam. But after enrolling at UI, where she took part in student-organized Koranic study, the 19-year-old English major began wearing a headscarf. "It was God's will that I could study at UI," she says, "so wearing the jilbab is an expression of gratitude for God's blessings." When Anisa and her classmates finish their studies...
...inaction following last July's bombings of commuter trains in Mumbai. Brahma Chellaney, a professor at the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi, says there are bigger issues to overcome once the mourning has passed. "A normal relationship is not going to happen unless it's founded on closer economic and energy integration," he says. Perhaps, but at least the dialogue is no longer as easy to derail as trains...
...only earned her the title of La Stupenda but single-handedly brought this neglected opera back into the repertoire. Since being snapped up by New York's Metropolitan Opera for its young artists' development program in 2001, Perth-born Durkin, 31, has been groomed for world stardom. Despite a closer resemblance to Joan Collins than Sutherland, Durkin's Metropolitan audition reminded one Canadian critic of "a young Joan Sutherland without the belle poitrine [fine bosom]," and six years later, her much-heralded talent faces the blowtorch of expectation with Alcina. NIDA-trained Way, resident director at Covent Garden...
...Faculty Council yesterday appointed three of its members to form a committee that could bring the new General Education proposals one step closer to implementation...