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Rushdie was famously the subject of a fatwa requiring his execution issued by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Recently, he has argued for greater rights for Islamic women. In 2006, when British Leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw criticized the wearing of the niqab...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Novelist Rushdie Dates Harvard Grad | 10/25/2009 | See Source »

While the acts, which collage extracts of Shakespeare’s plays to fit an overarching theme, connect well aesthetically, the content overall is fragmented. And though the idea of compiling scenes to describe the time-old notion of the “seven sins” is inspired, the...

Author: By Athena L. Katsanpes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hyperion’s ‘Sins’ Dead On in Entertainment Value | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

The Next Asia will also have to come to grips with its inherent lack of coordination by exerting greater control over its fragmented economies, markets and political systems. China's four largest banks, for example, still have over 50,000 branches between them - branches that in many cases function autonomously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution of Asia | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Mazoltuv Borukhova, a Queens doctor, was convicted in March of first-degree murder after her cousin, Mikhail Mallayev, shot and killed her husband execution style in front of their 4-year-old daughter in a playground. In the midst of a heated custody dispute, Borukhova allegedly lured her husband to...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dershowitz Appeals NY Murder Verdict | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

Those who love fashion will be intrigued by this, at least to a point, after which Coco Before Chanel starts to feel like witnessing a sponge at work in the act of absorption. That's not generally the stuff of compelling cinema. We prefer the end results of a personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coco Before Chanel: The Making of a Fashion Icon | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

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