Word: communalism
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...fact, we may be getting a bit quick building our memorials, in an unspoken effort to rush through a state of mourning - an offshoot of the nonsensical notion of "closure." Death occurs, and in no time up pop communal memorial gestures - flowers and messages borne to suddenly consecrated places such as Strawberry Fields and John Kennedy Jr.'s doorstep. Hasty or not, memorials have clearly become one of the nation's meeting places. The most artistic pop culture representation of this new sense of comfort is the HBO series, "Six Feet Under," in which the dead do not simply walk...
INDIA Gujarat Battles The government said it would send 2,000 troops to help combat ongoing communal violence in the western state of Gujarat. State officials initially asked for extra police from Punjab after local forces failed to quell street battles between Hindu and Muslim groups armed with pistols, iron bars and homemade explosives. Human-rights groups say hundreds died in the latest clashes in the state capital, Ahmadabad, and more than 2,000 in Gujarat since February...
...from Pakistan to the Bombay underworld.) And enough past conflict for both communities to nurse historic grievances. The calls for intifadeh and jihad have started?"I am telling people to fight," says Imam Mohammed Ismail, 72, who lives at a refugee camp?and are being answered. "This is not communal violence," says Javed Saiyed, a Muslim from Ahmadabad. "This is civil war." All that is lacking is a Hamas or al-Qaeda. "We need training," says Usman Qureishi, Gazala's 20-year-old brother. "And we need a leader." And then India will have its civil...
...what happens when the Wizard of Oz gives interviews. But Lucas' first Star Wars film in 16 years was the victim of its own mammoth hype, stoked by a quillion cover stories, including TIME's, before anyone had seen the completed work--and by the worldwide audience's communal memory of Star Wars (1977) and its sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). If the Odyssey had enjoyed--or suffered--as much anticipatory fluffing as Phantom Menace did, some ancient Greeks would surely have muttered, "Homer's lost it." And the poet would have wearily...
...centuries, Jews had no place as students, faculty, administrators or members of the Corporation. Harvard only ended its discrimination against Jews within the past century and already there is a very large number of Jewish professors and students, Jewish studies classes, a Hillel building that allows for Jewish communal activities and even a Jewish president. It is time that Harvard give the same rights to other groups that have suffered discimination—including women, Latinos, African-Americans, Asians, and members of the bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender community—by granting them the same institutional recognition. People from...