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...pressure with the need to avoid "a humanitarian disaster." It's a risky line to walk and Tibon knows it: in August, he sent two soldiers to military jail when they shot dead a municipal electrician even though the man had permission to move about during the curfew. Shots echo up the mountainside at midday. In Tibon's command center, radios crackle with reports that two border policemen have been hit after their jeep broke down near the Casbah. It'll be past midnight when Tibon visits the scene; right now he must coordinate the evacuation...
Cornell scored the lone goal of the first half on a nice individual effort by junior midfielder Ian Pilarski. Bypassing Harvard defenders with moves that prompted several fans to echo joshingly the sanctified name of Diego Maradona, Pilarski put the Big Red on the scoreboard 35 minutes into the game...
...coming through and recognized as truthful." If Rumi himself were somehow zapped, robes and all, into the present day and given a look at the vast spiritual Starbucks where he is the most popular flavor of the moment, what would he make of it all? Very likely he would echo what Kabir Helminski, a practicing Sufi and another popular contemporary Rumi translator, has said about attempts to siphon off the insights of Rumi and other Sufi sages without addressing their Islamic context: "We cannot steal the fire. We must enter...
...scavenging for the readings than actually perusing the material. Professors truly interested in generating enthusiasm for their courses should make greater efforts to help students acquire the material—either by creating sourcebooks or by putting multiple copies of readings on reserve at the libraries. Powerful ideas should echo in the heads of graduating seniors—not the humming and clicking of a busy photocopier...
...views echo University President Lawrence H. Summers’ expressed commitment to K-12 education and the role graduate schools can play in shaping America’s teachers...