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Asha George is currently a Research Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Ian Urbina is a history doctoral student at the University of Chicago. Chris Toensing is a history doctoral student at Georgetown University...
...overwhelmingly middle and professional class: a handful of autoworkers, many more small-business owners, lots of doctors and, increasingly, university professors. There are very few poor among them. Since many arrived in the 1960s as students, says Professor John Esposito, head of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, "it's remarkable how fast they are making it up the ladder. And the next generation is expected to do better." They are social conservatives: more than 65% voted for George W. Bush. They are pro-gun control, pro-environment and pro-death penalty. They are proud of their...
...Christianity, its close religious relatives, Islam honors all humanity--not just believers--as created by God, who is referred to as "the compassionate and merciful." The Judeo-Christian respect for the widow and the orphan is amplified by the fact that the Prophet Muhammad was himself an orphan, notes Georgetown's John O. Voll. And for all the conflict depicted in the Koran, its recognition of pluralism is embodied in a verse that explains that God created humans different from one another so that they can learn from one another...
Shaddup already! Being a proper Englishman, not to mention general manager of the posh Monarch Hotel in the Georgetown section of Washington, George Terpilowski would never think of using such language. But Terpilowski, and dozens of other service providers across the country, would dearly love...
...course, a little human kindness comes in short supply when things get choppy. Consider a three-day power outage in Georgetown that played havoc with the Monarch's air conditioning over a steamy June weekend. It created textbook examples of good and bad guest behavior. There was the jerk who spent 15 minutes screaming for a cooler room--hey, was that you? The obnoxious one ultimately got what he asked for. But so did the guest who simply requested to be relocated. The only difference was 14 minutes of unpleasantness for everyone in the hotel lobby. "That kind of rudeness...