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...Hillel together shouldered costs and hosting duties, and Rohr says that more similar events can be expected. As Rohr says, “There’s no rivalry.” The bottom line? Officially, no conflict to be found. Students involved with one, both, or neither express satisfaction with their choices. And Chabad and Hillel, two student groups with more or less the same purpose, looking to attract the same members, have found a way to coexist, and even—G-d forbid—cooperate...
...more mature about it.” But some active in Jewish life at Harvard said they would prefer a president who is no weaker in his faith, regardless of what it is.“We hope that in a future president there will be a willingness to express his or her religion whatever it is,” Hillel student president Judy Z. Herbstman ’07 says. “I hope this doesn’t force the next [leader] to be overly cautious.”“Many in the Jewish community...
...wholesale religious cleansing, as Sunnis and Shi'ites have sought safety in their sectarian communities. In areas where Shi'ites and Sunnis once lived in tolerance, even harmony, the two sides are drawing sectarian lines to separate themselves from each other--even as Iraqi politicians and U.S. diplomats express hope that the risk of an imminent outbreak of communal conflict is receding. "If you are a minority in a neighborhood, you have to get out," says Adil Faaq Mohammed, a Sunni security guard at the Iraqi Health Ministry. "If you stay, your own neighbors will turn against...
...given himself the lead--in a commercial. Shyamalan took it quite seriously. "I really did approach this commercial as a two-minute movie," he says. "We filmed it in the movie way, over two days, 12 shots a day, with movie people and movie actors." The commercial, for American Express, shows all sorts of spooky things--a woman catching a fly with her tongue, diners disappearing like shattered glasses--that happen at a restaurant while Shyamalan watches. Fans will need to pay for his next effort: Lady in the Water, starring Paul Giamatti, which comes out in July...
...freedom of speech is not well understood by them, but the reasoning behind their outrage does not lack merit. Westerners can claim that we are totally free to print or write anything we wish. That people are offended is assumed to be less important than the right to express oneself in a free society. But am I free to print a pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic article in Germany? Of course not. Ronald Monsen Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...