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...barbarism toward fellow Muslims. One jihadist contact says al-Zarqawi had a growing sense that he couldn't trust those around him. He took to mimicking the habits of the Prophet Muhammad recorded in Muslim texts, including the way he brushed his teeth and wore his sandals. Lacking formal religious training, he prayed incessantly and consulted frequently with religious advisers--attempts, perhaps, to shed his murderous past and reinvent himself as a savior of Islam. But he never got the chance. U.S. forces bore in on al-Zarqawi by tracking his spiritual adviser Sheik Abdul-Rahman, a man the terrorist...
...Montebello’s formal preparation for curating one of the world’s most prominent museums can be traced back to Harvard, where he majored in art history and focused on the artist Delacroix...
...sign, v. intr. 1. American Heritage Dictionary: To give up one’s job or office, especially by formal notification. 2. Harvard: To give up one’s job or office after being informally notified that you’re about to be fired: Faculty Dean William C. Kirby resigned in January; University President Lawrence H. Summers resigned the next month...
...years, described Roberts as “a serious student” and “a great consumer of Pepto Bismol.” “There were no parties, but John did have a social life,” Bush said.Roberts was also described as somewhat formal. Indeed, Bush recalls that “when he was considering law schools, John removed Stanford from his list because the Stanford interviewer was wearing sandals and didn’t have a tie.”At the Law School, Roberts became the managing editor of the Law Review...
...down the street—women would outnumber men in caps and gowns in the Yard.Two years from now, that day is likely to arrive. Females outnumbered males among freshmen enrolling in the Class of 2008, the Admissions Office reported at the time.And Agassiz, who received no formal education but became a prominent naturalist and educator nonetheless, may never have thought that today, women would outnumber men by a wide margin on college campuses nationwide. But in 2003, there were 1.35 females for every male graduate from a four-year college and 1.3 females for every male undergraduate...