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...religious repression was uneven. Sunni Caliphs in Baghdad tolerated and sometimes contributed to the development of Najaf and Karbala as the most important centers of Shi'ite learning. Shi'ite ayatullahs, as long as they refrained from open defiance of the ruling �lite, could run seminaries and collect tithes from their followers. The shrines of Shi'ite Imams in Najaf, Karbala, Samarra and Khadamiya were allowed to become magnets for pilgrimage...
...total kills and an ace within the first few minutes. After holding a steady lead throughout the game, Rivier clawed back from a two-point deficit at 22-20, riding off the momentum of Raiders’ sophomore Scott Wright’s thunderous block to collect five consecutive points and the game victory. “After batting around a .400 attack percentage, we dropped to hit .194,” said Ridolfi. “We talked about being workmanlike and professional but we weren’t specific enough. [The team] had a spirited talk...
When he attempted to have the UC collect the numbers in January, the Coop banned the council members from copying down the numbers, Hadfield said...
...other actors lounged backstage while an actress with platinum blonde hair and a heavy application of kohl-eyeliner berated a stagehand in the timeless manner of prima donnas the world over. But any sense of show business as usual ended when one of the theater managers came by to collect passports and identity documents. The Syrian government is in the process of tightening its generous residency laws for Iraqi refugees, and the fear of deportation looms larger over the cast than a newspaper critic with a grudge...
...have undoubtedly inspired many to learn more about their family histories, to attempt to imagine what ancestors’ worlds and experiences might have been like and what they might have to do with one’s own life.The same has apparently happened to Alice Munro. Munro, whose collections of intimate, thoughtful short stories have earned her vast acclaim, explains in the introduction to her newest—and potentially last—collection, “The View From Castle Rock,” that someone in every generation of her family has had a habit of writing...