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...Aswany belongs to a young generation of Arab writers more concerned with domestic liberties than with fighting Egypt's old battles against colonialism or nursing the wounds of a humiliating defeat by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967. A longtime political columnist for the opposition newspaper Al-Arabi, he joined the nonviolent Kifaya! (Enough!) movement in 2004. He has been harassed by security police, and Islamic radicals have publicly denounced him. But despite the outward pessimism in Yacoubian and Chicago, Al Aswany strives to be optimistic about his country's future. He believes some progress has been made...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...
...Business School in 1991, has spent the past 24 years in Cambridge. Before becoming a professor, she earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in government. Barnard College, a top-ranked liberal arts college, is affiliated with Columbia. Spar has no previous ties to either school. Anna Quindlen, a columnist and the chair of the Barnard Board of Trustees, said in a statement that the search committee found in Spar a candidate who was “a charismatic intellectual deeply committed to the value of single-sex education for women.” At Barnard, Spar will oversee a student body...
...Clinton's campaign, though both argue the site is non-partisan. The newspaper recently incorporated this summer as a not-for-profit entity called Scoop Media, Inc., enjoying pro bono legal assistance from Weil, Gotshal & Manges. It also draws guidance from an advisory board that includes New York Times columnist Frank Rich and Newsweek editor Jonathan Alter, among others...
...then, do so many Indian-Americans support him? After all, Indians voted for Kerry over Bush in the 2004 election by a four-to-one ratio, and are overwhelmingly registered as Democrats. Jindal, however, is all business and no bleeding heart. As Times of India columnist Shashi Tharoor writes in his scathing piece “Should We Be Proud of Bobby Jindal?” “Many Indians born in America have tended to sympathize with other people of color, identifying their lot with other immigrants, the poor, the underclass… None of this for Bobby...