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...artistic inspiration was his family's only book: an illustrated copy of the Shahnameh, a 10th century Persian epic revered in Afghanistan. The Taliban co-opted the poem's hero, Rustam, as a propaganda figure, telling Afghans that they, like him, were winged heroes endowed with arrows to defeat evil. Ali's phantasmagoric show, "Rustam," features a devil-figure with horns, wings and the unmistakably Pashtun features of many Taliban. Occasionally, an Arabic numeral floats mid-frame, a nod to Ali's earlier works, which riffed on Afghan schoolbooks that taught counting and reading through the language...
There are two problems with this strategy. First, the election may not go the Democrats' way. If they grab defeat from the jaws of victory, Republicans could lose the incentive to cut a climate deal. Second, fixing the climate is like saving for retirement--the longer we wait, the harder it gets. That's not to say Lieberman-Warner is perfect. Its emissions targets should be tougher, and it gives away too many pollution allowances for free. But let's dream for a moment. If it manages to pass both houses of Congress (a mighty big if), the bill would...
...reliant on charisma, Howard has been an indestructible force in Australian politics. As recently as 1989, his own party thought him unelectable and dumped him as leader. But since 1996, he's won four elections for the Liberal-National Coalition, twice pulling it back from the brink of defeat. He's left behind a trail of defeated Labor Party leaders, becoming in the process a hero of conservatives across the Western world...
...bias, introduced a motion at last week’s Faculty meeting calling on FAS to reaffirm its commitment to free speech and tolerance of minority views. The Faculty, however, seeing through Matory’s ploy, decided to table the resolution (a sufficient quorum was not present to defeat the proposal). Free speech is necessary component of free society. But Matory’s resolution in favor of “civil dialogue” isn’t really about free speech at all. The actual text of the motion is only one sentence long, articulating the fairly...
...Crimson became energized by the multitude of Harvard hockey fans that streamed into Lavietes following the men’s hockey game against Cornell. With the bleachers nearly full, the Crimson exploded on a 30-8 run to break open the ballgame and hand the Bears their second defeat of the young season...