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...Arabic -the outstretched columns, fi 'amadin mumaddada, and the vault high above the hearts of those huddled in terror and straining to see into the towering mist of white heat, naru l-lahi l-muqada-some hint of the Mercifuls relenting at some point in time, and calling a halt to Hutama, the imam casts down his eyes, which are an unexpectedly pale gray, as milky and elusive as a kafir womans, and says that these visionary descriptions by the Prophet are figurative. They are truly about the burning misery of separation from God and the scorching of our remorse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Updike's "Terrorist" | 5/27/2006 | See Source »

...hope and believe that the acting careers of President Bok and myself will be short.”WORDS OF ADVICEBok took charge of the dean search on the heels of Summers’ struggle to do so. Six days before Summers resigned, the Faculty Council demanded that Summers halt the search until professors could be confident “that it would result in a dean who could enjoy the support of both the President and the FAS.”After being selected as Summers’ immediate successor, Bok appointed a 10-member faculty advisory committee that...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker and Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Beloved Brit to Reprise Role as FAS Dean | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...took charge of the dean search on the heels of Summers’ struggle to do so. Six days before Summers resigned, the Faculty Council demanded that Summers halt the search until professors could be confident “that it would result in a dean who could enjoy the support of both the President...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker and Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Beloved Brit Is Back in the Spotlight | 5/23/2006 | See Source »

...shielded by their uniforms, launched a campaign of kidnapping, torture and assassination of Sunnis. Jabr is himself connected to the Badr Brigades, a Shi'ite militia that was created and funded by Iran. Although he denied that death squads were at large in the police force, he failed to halt the killings, which currently run at around 1,000 a month in Baghdad alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Iraqis Aren't Cheering Their New Government | 5/20/2006 | See Source »

...North Korean people, a great step in the right direction would be spurring its basket-case neighbor to embrace reform and globalization rather than just providing generous aid to prop up the regime. If that happened, the underground railroad created by American Christians would eventually grind to a halt, a result that I am sure they and other activists would warmly welcome. Chen Liang Singapore Although the human-rights violations being committed in North Korea are sickening, they are unfortunately nothing new. The world has known for decades about North Korea's Stalinist-inspired gulags, in which individuals found guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow — But Steady — Change in France | 5/16/2006 | See Source »

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