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Talk about blaming the messenger. All Professor of English Elisa New did was pass on some chit-chat she’d heard from a party—that Tom Paulin, a poet who was scheduled to give a reading at Harvard, had made anti-Semitic remarks to an Egyptian newspaper. Yet as word spread of Paulin’s views and a controversy ensued, New herself, a 44 year-old tenured American literature scholar, became the target of suspicion from both colleagues and outsiders. Then again, that can happen when the president of Harvard calls you his girlfriend...
...corner of our lives safe from a designer makeover? The latest renovation site: the kitchen sink. METHOD dish soap, in scents like mandarin, mint and cucumber, comes in bulbous plastic bottles crafted by Karim Rashid, the Egyptian-Canadian designer who has put his stamp on perfume bottles, expensive furniture and garbage cans. Martha Stewart has released her own impeccable bottle of dishwashing liquid...
...shuffles along the marble floor of his Cairo apartment, leaning on a walking stick to ease the pressure on his broken right foot, Saad Eddin Ibrahim doesn't look like a menace to society. Yet according to Egyptian authorities, the 64-year-old sociology professor and civic activist is one of the most dangerous men in the country. This week he is due in court to face sedition charges for a third time - two previous convictions were overturned on appeal, and Ibrahim was released in December after a five-month prison stay (his third in two years). If convicted again...
...Arafat condemned the latest attack, but his political injunctions against killing civilians inside Israel have had little impact in recent months. The latest bombings were perpetrated by members of a militia based in his own Fatah movement, and were carried out even as Palestinian and Egyptian leaders meeting in Cairo were engaged in tough negotiations around a pact to end attacks inside Israel, so as to avoid stampeding Israeli voters to the right...
...resolution investing power in the inspectors said they had to represent "the broadest possible geographic base"; accordingly, they come from 49 countries. Among the team members are a retired U.S. Army colonel who guided nuclear inspectors through Russia in the 1990s to enforce disarmament agreements, an Egyptian chemist who worked for her country's atomic-energy laboratory and a Virginia man who founded his own security-consulting company...