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...Your March 5 cover story: As a Sunni Muslim in the U.S., I am often asked to explain the differences and disagreements between the Islamic sects. Your superb analysis has made my job much easier. It is the most balanced, finely nuanced examination of the sectarian divide I have ever read in the mainstream media. Unlike many other non-Muslim commentators, Bobby Ghosh correctly realizes that the root of the fighting in Iraq (and in other parts of the Islamic world) is not religion but politics. The warring parties cloak themselves in religious garb and quote suras to suit their...
...Last Mimzy is kind of complicated. Can you explain...
...conceived the start-up's objective seven years ago--to solve the problem of large-scale, global data transmission on mobile devices--a eucalyptus branch fell outside Phillip Alvelda's Oakland Hills home, where the three sat brainstorming. The tree smashed his hot tub. Alvelda, a physicist, can probably explain the energy wave given off. But he could not necessarily say what triggered him and Paul Scanlan and Jeff Annison to agree that day to combine their expertise in technology, marketing and project management for a start-up, launched in 2003, that now rivals any other outfit in mobile broadband...
...Kumar.”“I had all my managers and agents and people who usually help me with these things call her office, and there were no phone calls returned. And then I called myself, and there were no phone calls returned,” Penn explains. “Then I decided to write her a letter telling her exactly why I had to play this part.”That only worked, says Penn, thanks to Nair’s 14-year-old son. “Every night before bed, because he was such...
...only student in Erving Research Professor of Chemistry William Klemperer’s Freshman Seminar “Seeing by Spectroscopy.” For those of us who never got past the elementary acronym ROYGBIV, Professor Klemperer says, “I think the easiest way to explain it is that spectroscopy is the...detailed examination of the frequencies of radiation.” Easy? Come again? Perhaps it was simply the word “Spectroscopy” that scared so many students away when scrolling through the list of spring seminars, which includes everything from the visually...