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...ideological war now rages within the south's Muslim communities. Militants disseminate their radical creed through leaflets hand-scattered at night in villages or stuck to lamp-posts in towns and cities. One found recently outside a mosque in Pattani's Yarang district excoriates the NRC and "Siamese infidels" who corrupt young Muslims with drugs and money. It warns the "people of Pattani state" to reject all efforts of reconciliation by non-Muslims. "A dog is still a dog, even if it befriends a goat," it says. "People read the leaflets and then destroy them," says a Muslim aid worker...
...Harvard Plans Its Dubai Debut” (June 27) is thought-provoking. Harvard Medical International’s (HMI) CEO Dr. Robert K. Crone is quoted as stating that Dubai is “an open society with regards to accepting individuals of all race, color and creed.” But on-campus activities, including faculty office hours, are held separately for men and women in United Arab Emirates universities. including Dubai. Is HMI going to follow a “When in Dubai, do as Arabs do” policy or a kosher open-society policy...
...well positioned to become a regional center for both education and healthcare,” Crone said when the Dubai initiative began in 2003. “It in itself has an excellent infrastructure and is an open society with regards to accepting individuals of all race, color and creed...
...downtown street in San Salvador; and last week at crowded air terminals in Rome and Vienna. Wherever he appeared, his victims, if they were not murdered outright, faced endless hours or days of anarchy and wrenching fear, often accompanied by harsh rantings about some strange and often incomprehensible political creed. Once again the terrorist, the sinister perpetrator of violence in the name of politics, showed himself to be, as the 19th century Russian Revolutionary Sergei Nechayev put it, "an implacable enemy of this world." What made the year different was the willingness of governments to fight back...
...financial institutions also face an invasion by the Japanese, who control four of the state's ten largest banks, with combined assets of $47 billion. Pinola has said that in the future, "banking services will ultimately be delivered by only a handful of very strong, nationwide financial firms." His creed, in short, is survival of the fittest. These days, that is a lesson even the nation's mightiest corporations must take to heart. --By George Russell. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York and Paul A. Witteman/San Francisco