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...Enter the Hawaiian-born Fal Allen, bringing with him two decades of brewing experience in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. He thought he had a grasp of the basics of Asian food-until he arrived in Singapore. "There's a lot of stuff that I've seen versions of, but you come here and you see eight versions of it," he says, marveling at the mango varieties on display at Singapore's Pasir Pajang wholesale market...
...alone. The fear of a Eurabia (capital: Londonistan) populated by poor, angry, fervent Muslims is gaining ground. Islamists are "determined to subdue and colonize Europe," claims American essayist Bruce Bawer, in his book While Europe Slept. "Now, nearly the whole of Western Europe is practically within their grasp." Europeans, for their part, worry that its Muslim population can only become more segregated and disaffected; that the London bombings, the France riots and the Danish cartoon protests are just a taste of what's to come. A new report by the British think tank Policy Exchange found that 13% of British...
...people in just about every department on campus because they have had intersecting interests with her and people in the Radcliffe Institute.” “There’s no question in my mind that she is very able to work with scientists and to fully grasp scientific research and to understand what it takes to make progress in the sciences,” says Grosz, the Radcliffe science dean and artificial intelligence expert. According to Grosz the institute welcomes about 12 to 14 fellows in the sciences every year. And it hosts annual science symposia?...
...Grosz, dean of science at Radcliffe, said that the Radcliffe dean has an impressive amount knowledge of the sciences and will be competent to carry out the task at hand.“There’s no question in my mind that she will be able to grasp intellectually the material and to understand programmatically what’s needed,” Grosz said last month. Though Faust will have the opportunity to bring new projects to the docket, she will also have to tackle the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review and the search for a new dean...
...Egypt, Syria and the other Arab nations accepted Israel's right to exist in 1947, the Palestinians could have been living for the past 40 years in a state of their own. The Palestinians could have bargained for a homeland in 1967. But once again the Arabs failed to grasp the offer, ''to test us and be astonished by our generosity,'' as Abba Eban put it. That is disingenuous. The Palestinians obviously missed an opportunity. But the Israelis made it clear after the Six-Day War that