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...Featuring 173 black-and-white photographs accompanied by the photographer's own written recollections, In Whose Name? finds Abbas at ground zero a year after the tragedy, where he encounters a giant cross and resolves to explore "the secret ways Islamism and its extreme form, jihadism, feed on Islam." Over the next five years, he travels around the planet, from Afghanistan to Zanzibar, in what is not so much a journey of geography as an odyssey across the ummah - the global community of Muslims. The scope of the images - from the ultra-contemporary fashion shoots of Turkey to the primal...
...yearning for the old order among elderly Ossis to whom life in reunited Germany hasn't always proved kind. Hubertus Knabe - the director of Hohenschönhausen, a former G.D.R. prison and now a memorial - argues that the success of Die Linke in the eastern states reveals a dangerous form of amnesia. His book Honeckers Erben (Honecker's Heirs) depicts Die Linke as direct descendants of G.D.R. leader Erich Honecker's repressive communist regime. "It's a very human quality to whitewash the past," he says. But he adds the warning: "It means one can't learn from history...
...okay. We’ll take criticism humbly, even when it comes in the form of tiresome stereotypes. Although, really, we swear we’re not all A) blazer-wearing rowers, B) Indians, C) slutty Asian girls, or D) computer geeks...
...game, either.Heated sentiments were exchanged throughout the game and continued to boil even into the final seconds when a scuffle nearly broke out between the opposing lines.The most quantifiable embodiment—and perhaps source, as well—of the players’ emotions came in the form of several defensive infractions against Holy Cross.Penalties were a frequent source of discontent on the Crusader bench; Holy Cross was set back 120 yards on 10 penalties relative to 50 yards of lost ground on six Harvard penalties. But it was a series of roughing the passer calls that ignited attitudes...
Workplace violence is, of course, a broad term that covers a range of behavior, including, in its most extreme form, homicide. According to Larry Barton, a professor of management and president of the American College in Bryn Mawr, Penn., nonfatal workplace assaults and threats of assaults, have indeed seen a recent uptick - due in part to stress and depression caused by the weak economy. These are the same reasons that researchers think led to the troubling rise in workplace suicides in 2008, which jumped 28% from the year before...