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...Resistance from non-Muslims and civil liberties groups has forced legislators to start revising the bill, a process they plan to complete by June. But pressure from influential Muslim organizations to impose harsh sanctions remains strong. "We have to stop this drift toward moral liberalization," says Din Syamsuddin, chairman of Muhammadiyah, the country's second largest Muslim organization. Leaders such as Syamsuddin deny any intention of imposing Shari'a or that non-Muslims are being targeted. They also reject the claim that rights will be curtailed, saying that the objective of the law is to protect women and children...
...going to leave here with a government tomorrow," Rice said, stating the obvious. "That's not the purpose of the trip. But I think... probably it was good for all of them to hear it from each of us, from both of us, that people have a sense of drift...
...from the catalog. The proposal stresses the importance of moral and ethical education, but stops short of a requirement. Everyone agrees that ethics are a vital part of any education, but there is disagreement about where they belong in the new curriculum. “The committee seemed to drift to a least-common-denominator approach,” writes Johnstone Family Professor Psychology Steven Pinker in an e-mail. The Generdal Education Committee was unable to agree on the right requirement, so they settled for no requirement at all.VERITASUntil the late 19th century, according to Professor of History James...
...lived in Washington, I was "the wife." My husband was an editor at the Washington Post, but my career lottery number had yet to come up. Tagging along in the modest swirl of D.C. cocktail parties, I was the half of the couple who watched people's gaze drift during conversation as they searched the room for someone a little more plugged in. No one remembered my name or asked for my card or paid for my lunch. I was unexpensable. My husband twice received handsome engraved invitations to presidential dinners. For those events and many others...
...Today the landscape they knew looks empty but for lonely turrets of sediment eaten away by the weather and dunes shimmering under a scalding sky. Parched flocks of galahs drift on the hot wind. Yet the Willandra Lakes region, which in 1981 became a 240,000-hectare World Heritage Area, has in the past 30 years yielded astounding archaeological treasures. In 1968 the dunes surrendered Mungo Lady, the skeletal remains of a young woman whose burial site remains the oldest evidence of cremation ever found. The ocher-covered bones of the world's oldest known ritual burial, Mungo Man, were...