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...emphasized militaristic verses of the Koran over those that counsel peacemaking. Muslims spoke of the earth as being divided between the dar ul- Islam (realm of Islam) and the dar ul-harb (realm of war), implying a need for ongoing combat to extend the faith's domain. In succeeding centuries, as Muslims consolidated a multinational empire, the language of militant jihad faded...
...would seem to have done this by guesswork. His 1633 portrait of Henry Percy, "the Wizard Earl" who spent 16 years of his life immured in the Tower of London for his supposed complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, is an icon of saturnine intellect, from the same introspective domain as Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But Van Dyck probably never met Percy, who died in 1632; he was working from a younger portrait by someone else...
...institutes of Freudian psychoanalysis. They determined whether patients would be committed to mental hospitals. And they had the exclusive right to prescribe mind-altering medications. But in the past several years psychologists, who have Ph.D.s but no medical school on their resumes, have been chipping away at the psychiatrists' domain...
...back of the Bow is their domain. From the newly-installed big screen sports television to the pit which holds three dart boards all the way up to the pole which marks the bar's midway point, the regulars roam...
...constituency. But the interest group that arguably has the most to lose is the health-insurance industry, which spends more than $1 million a year to forestall any thoroughgoing government action. And why not? The insurance industry already enjoys a richly rewarding, gruesomely parasitic relationship to the public health domain. In broad schematic outline, it goes like this...