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...relinquish control of the Palestinian government to the upstarts. Both Palestinian officials and Israeli security experts say that a clash between the two forces is inevitable and could swiftly turn violent. The feud runs deep. Fatah members are secular, while Hamas' leadership is guided by the Koran. Palestinians complain that many of Arafat's old commanders are little better than gangsters, men who made fortunes when they arrived from exile in Tunis in 1994 by siphoning off aid, creating monopolies, grabbing property, and running protection rackets. Hamas militants, by contrast, have a reputation for discipline and honesty and have vowed...
...government could impinge on a university’s freedom of speech by threatening to cut funding.“[T]here might have been a risk that the Court [could hold] that, inasmuch as universities have no right to federal funding in the first place, they cannot complain of whatever deal the federal government offers, including a deal requiring universities to give up what the Court would concede were First Amendment rights,” Tribe wrote.And based on this approach, Tribe said, the court could have dismissed the universities’ challenge to the Solomon Amendment...
...just as everyone regards the once ingenious and light hilarity of Tolstoy to be a tedious and dated chore, so, too, will future students of DigiMedia 1025: “The 21st-Century Tele-epic” complain of length and incomprehensibility. That’s why you should get on the bandwagon now, before any of the jokes...
...hijab comes up again. “It is an equalizer,” says Ola Aljawhary ’09, Tellawi’s friend, in the Islamic Society prayer room in Canaday. “Liberated western women, in their tank tops and mini-skirts, complain about being seen as ‘sexual machines.’ I’m not into idle flirtation, I’m looking for civil discussion—men are forced to look at my mind and my heart, to see how I think, how I feel...
Peasants might not be so upset if cash from confiscated fields were used to build new schools or clean water projects. Instead, they complain, the money is often diverted by local officials. And few corruption investigations lead to sentencing, not least because officials tend to protect their own. Farmers who once trusted the central government's ability to fix problems find their faith in the system dimming and their anger rising. "They had been told that reform was coming, so they were patient," says Philip Brown, an economist who studies rural China and teaches at Colby College. "But now they...