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...Egypt is a good illustration of President Bush's point that the absence of channels for democratic political participation in Arab states has helped foster terrorism, which has eventually been exported. Osama Bin Laden may be Saudi, but most of the top-tier al-Qaeda leadership at the time of 9/11 were veterans of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a militant offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood that turned to terrorism in response to the Sadat regime's peace treaty with Israel, and found hundreds of willing recruits in Egypt's middle class and in its officer corps. The Brotherhood, of course...
READINGS | R. F. Foster...
...Foster reads from The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939, the final installment of his factually rich two-volume biography, W.B. Yeats: A Life. 6 p.m. Harvard Bookstore...
...donate money to cover these gaps—not to the governments, which will siphon aid into their own bank accounts, but to non-governmental organizations that will spend the aid on primary education, disease control, family-planning and other measures that improve the quality of life and foster economic growth...
...with gender and sexuality. Isn’t that a good thing? Maybe we all want to swagger or saunter around a bit more—and we’re grateful for a safe community in which to do this. But Drag Night doesn’t always foster the kind of freedom and diversity it purports to. Prince Charming may get some fake boobs to be beautiful for a few hours, but by the stroke of midnight, his stubble returns and he changes back into a man, his masculinity intact. So the question is, does Drag Night really...