Word: commoners
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Muslim jurists contend that stoning is no more typical of Islamic justice than extra-tough state laws against the possession of drugs are representative of the American legal tradition. Beyond that, the threat of the Shari'a is usually more severe than the reality. As in Western common law, defendants are presumed innocent until proved guilty...
...vast idea called Islam, which the faithful look to for spiritual nourishment in their numerous ways, an equally vast, rich life passes, as detailed and as complex as any. For comprehension of that life Westerners need what Orientalist Scholar Louis Massignon called a science of compassion, knowledge without domination, common sense not mythology. In Iran and elsewhere Islam has not simply "returned"; it has always been there, not as an abstraction or a war cry but as part of a way people believe, give thanks, have courage and so on. Will it not ease our fear to accept the fact...
...first A310s are due to begin flying in 1983 for Swissair, which last month signed an order for ten planes. That was a key deal because Swissair has depended heavily on U.S. planes in the past, and Switzerland is not a member of the Airbus group or of the Common Market, and thus was under no visible pressure to buy European...
...tremendous influence on profits. One way may be to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive. The chairman-Mr. Outside-would concentrate on anticipating the demands of society and Government. He (or she) would head a board with fewer corporate officers and more independent directors than is common today. The chief executive-Mr. Inside-would run the company. Already Mead Corp. and Connecticut General Insurance have moved in this direction...
...quality of some of the lesser known artists whose work Curator Rowell has ferreted out. One was Katarzyna Kobro, a Russian woman who worked with Malevich and Lissitzky in the years just after the 1917 Revolution, and whose exquisitely organized sculptures of painted sheet steel radiate an un common precision of feeling. Alas, nearly all of Kobro's output has vanished, as has that of László Peri, a Hungarian sculptor who died in 1967. His concrete wall plaques, so tersely unbeautiful and confident in their "shaped canvas" eccentricity, remind one how many of the concerns...