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...Islamic issues in Britain today. While the presence of parallel legal systems in ethnic communities may alarm the British, it's the perceived growth of a parallel Islamic culture that causes most concern. Hence, the slightest suggestion of Sharia law on British turf hits the headlines in a flash, and the debate over Muslim women wearing the veil rumbles on. (A poll this week found one in three people would support a ban on face-covering veils in public places...
...Flash forward to Harvard in 2006. The United States is at war again, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has only one course in specific military matters—Government 1730: “War and Politics.” We have the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, but that is more focused on grand foreign policy machinations rather than military realities on the ground. The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government is on the right track—good liberals that they are, they’ve managed...
...mention its own. If you can't make a convincing case in the chambers of the House and Senate for a constitutionally proclaimed war, then perhaps we oughtn't embark on it. President George W. Bush took what was arguably undeserved heat during the 2004 campaign when, in a flash of either candor or carelessness, he conceded the point that the war on terror would not end explicitly with, say, a satisfying ceremony on the deck of a battleship during which all of the belligerents sign a peace accord...
...only rivaled by Carmen Electra. What made me entirely reposition my views on existence was that not one of the Pussycat Dolls was sporting much cleavage. In fact, some of them were even wearing turtlenecks. It made no sense. If a former troupe of dirty dancers is unable to flash some décolletage while they are straddling subway turnstiles, it must be in very poor taste for the rest of us to display any at all. To be honest, this state of affairs disappoints me. Not that I am an extremely slutty dresser, or anything like that...
...come down on one side of the issue?”He says that comedians in particular have opportunities to effectively “come down on one side.”“I love it when somebody just stops joking and has a flash that’s just honest,” Rees says.Rees cites a Sept. 25, 2006 episode of The Daily Show as one of those moments. After a montage of pundits reacting indignantly to an angry interview President Bill Clinton had given on Fox News, Stewart singled out a woman who said...