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Abdul-Bassar described two theories which are often used to explain the discrepancy between African-American familiarity with Islam and Caucasian familiarity with the religion...
...data--although some privacy advocates are wary--but that some bad guys also got hold of them. That's why the nation's largest data miner, whose computers maintain and manipulate 19 billion data files for clients ranging from the Cub Scouts to the CIA, found itself trying to explain last week how a Nigerian con artist posing as several small-business owners could extract data on 145,000 people. "They were careful not to trip the triggers, and they did pay their bills," James Lee, ChoicePoint's chief marketing officer, says of the fake businesses. But the Nigerian...
...about this country and his righteous, inexhaustible rage at its numerous shortcomings, a rage that never cooled or hardened into cynicism. If he overindulged?and he did?it was in pursuit of a truth he felt he could find in no other way. "There is no honest way to explain it," he wrote, "because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." He has gone over now, and we can only hope he finally found what he was looking for. ?By Lev Grossman...
...third thief who fetchingly gets in everyone's way. As the story unfolds, the plot ties itself into some complicated knots, despite the best efforts of director Ma, who has the characters stop punching and kicking each other every five minutes or so to explain what's going...
...appeared almost ordained—how else do you explain the fact that trailing in the final two minutes of Friday’s game against the Big Green, Harvard pulled its goalie, called a timeout, and scored on the ensuing faceoff? In a loud, hostile environment, and as the clock ticked towards zero, Harvard’s miraculous, last-ditch effort had worked. The game was tied, and Harvard remained in line to earn at least one point—and a share of Ivy title...