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...instance, was typical. Instead of addressing the point, he went off on a tangent saying that “in Iran, every family who’s given a girl is given—in every Iranian family who has a girl, they’re 10 times happier than having a son…women are more respected than men are.” Even more telling was his discourse on Iran’s treatment of gays. A clown cowering behind his podium, Ahmadinejad claimed, “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like...
...rail from far corners of the city. Others were ditching work in the hopes of landing tickets to the first Miami-Boston game. Still more were there just because the Celtics, at worst, won’t be terrible, and, at best, might make a playoff run reminiscent of happier days in the old Garden.I remained in line for more than three hours, incredulous at the slow-moving line and the fans that still had such faith in a perennial loser. Finally, I asked the man in front of me the question I’d been dying...
...Musharraf may be restrained from the martial law option by its potentially devastating consequences: It would force those looking to unseat him to take to the streets and confront the state, and if that forced the military to fire upon fellow Muslims, nothing would make Osama bin Laden happier. In his audio tape released on Thursday, bin Laden said that Musharraf's government and soldiers were "all accomplices in spilling the blood of those of the Muslims who have been killed" during July's siege against the militant Red Mosque in Islamabad...
...predecessors and talking heads aside, the initiatives have been well-received. Their success has prompted alumni to give generously and, in many cases, directly to the College through the new Dean’s Fund for Undergraduate Life, created by Gross to target fundraising at undergraduates. Undergraduates are generally happier now than they were when Gross became dean; at Harvard College, that’s no mean feat...
...goal is to replicate Alshaikh's experience across the region by expanding the program into a dozen countries, training and placing up to 50,000 young people in jobs in five years' time. But what he really wants is for the idea to replicate itself. "Nothing would make me happier than governments banding together to make job creation in the region a priority," he says. And perhaps nothing else can make the region a more secure place...