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...London Calling for Cooler Heads The reaction of the Muslim world to the now infamous Muhammad cartoons continues [Feb. 20]. It is clear that reason will never play a role in that. Zealots and moderate Muslims alike continue to denounce the cartoons as an attack on Islam. What they fail to realize is that a handful of cartoons intended to be published only once is not a war. The horrible irony is that the real war - the terrorists' war - is not just a war against the West. In the end, the overwhelming majority of victims will be Muslims killed...
...argued that the historical fate of different cultures has been based not on biological disparities but rather on geographical factors. Diamond’s popular books, “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” and “Collapse: How Civilizations Choose to Fail or Succeed,” have posited similar claims. According to Diamond, the historical dominance of Eurasian and particularly European cultures has nothing to do with any questions of personality or intellectual capacity, as historians had once asserted. Instead, he proposes a model of human social evolution that sees European...
...describes at length the failure of requirements which are not supported by adequate faculty and administrative support. Introductory writing classes taught by relatively inexperienced graduate students and visiting professors, rather than tenured faculty, are singled out as examples. Bok also highlights the kind of language requirements that fail to produce fluency but represent an undue course burden...
...parents noted the undesirable aspects of the school—such as the achievement gap and past accreditation problems—Fowler-Finn noted that the school system always puts the educational success of children first and that he was “not willing to let any student fail.” —LAURA A. MOORE
...Whether Jaafari is elected or replaced, however, the multiple schisms that have plagued the political process appear to be widening, and the next prime minister is bound to be surrounded by powerful enemies looking for him to fail. In other words, at a time when Iraq needs strong leadership more than ever, the next Iraqi government may be even weaker than the current...