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...Rather than scripting a manifesto proposing a way to cure the titular “struggle,” which would have been dull and ineffective, Barrett takes the approach of introducing his audience to genuine American Muslims. Each of the seven chapters describes a person who epitomizes a facet of Muslim life in America. Barrett introduces each one masterfully: his publisher, scholar, imam, feminist, mystic, webmaster, and activist are lifted off the page. Each chapter’s title is a generalized description of one of the characters (such as “The Publisher”), which risks...
...feel her loneliness and awkwardness in the presence of their lifestyle of tennis and hors d’oeuvres. As the narrator grows older, she becomes more contemplative, and her exploration of her identity subtly becomes the main focus. Her fascination with the lives of her forebears is another facet of her drive to understand, to trace back attitudes about work and impractical dreams as far as possible to see how they change and how they stay the same.Although the collection clearly has its weaknesses, Munro is exceptionally strong when she is working with the engrossing material...
...hoopla from February 4th’s Super Bowl subsides and people like me settle into a six-month hibernation before preseason ball starts up again, there is one facet of the big game that we’ll see for weeks, maybe months to come. From a FedEx spot about fittingly-named co-workers to an Emerald Nuts ad serving to resurrect the career of an obscure Canadian singer, it’s the game’s commercials that get everyone—from the most casual of observers to the self-described fanatics like yours truly?...
...This is an important facet of mental health at Harvard,” he said, citing the longer breaks, improved opportunities for summer internships, more accessible cross-registration, and greater peace of mind that could follow a reformed calendar...
...Pavilion forget, at least for one game, the loss of the departed seven-footer. In a seeming Ivy League mismatch, pitting the hottest team in the circuit in Cornell, winners of four straight and seven of its last eight, against a Harvard squad that had looked awful in every facet of the game in a 90-70 loss to the Lions, Crimson sophomore forward Evan Harris came up with a performance that turned the tables on the Big Red (11-9, 4-2 Ivy). Harris finished with game highs of 18 points and 10 rebounds, and scored the winning basket...