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...fertile ground for spiritual purification. Clerics at these religious institutions preach the Salafi strain of Islam, which advocates a return to the religion as practiced in the era of the Prophet Muhammad. (Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia's strict form of the faith, is considered an offshoot of Salafi Islam.) By contrast, most Indonesians, like other Southeast Asian Muslims, had for centuries practiced a far less orthodox faith, incorporating the Hindu, Buddhist and animist traditions that had flourished before Islam arrived in the archipelago in the 12th century. Some 88% of Indonesia's 245 million citizens are Muslim, and the vast majority...
...contrast, Carmack, 36, says he is just a computer guy who got bored and taught himself rocket science. Yet in aerospace circles, the gamer and head of id Software is respected for doing results-oriented rocketry work on little dime. His shop in a suburban Dallas business complex looks like something out of Star Wars--Watto's junk shop on Tatooine, to be precise. Carmack takes you first to see his graveyard of old projects to explain his philosophy: Fly a whole lot, and learn where the gotchas are. He admits that he would like to go to the moon...
...including the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where she hopes to study with Garry Grafman. She could apply to the Moscow Conservatory, where she says she would be accepted. Unfortunately, the Conservatory is only free for Russians and Nadzhafova’s Ukrainian citizenship precludes her from that opportunity. In contrast, the Curtis Institute provides full scholarships to all of its students. However, there’sa catch: the the admission rate is less than 6 percent. Nadzhafova, now in the equivalent of her senior year of high school, is so busy with auditions and SATs that she spends what little...
Since the departure of Cusworth, Goffredo has been streaky at best, as showcased in the contrast between a seven-point effort in Jadwin and a 20-point offensive explosion last week against Brown...
...contrast, while Harvard has been a Boston institution since its Puritan beginnings, the local accent has never caught on here. Instead, Harvard has historically embraced the more decadent, waspish ethos of the Boston Brahmin elite. We live in a land of regattas and finals clubs—far more John Forbes Kerry than Will Hunting. If there is an accent that has defined Harvard over the years, it is one of haughty pretension that characterizes the sermons of Reverend Peter J. Gomes...