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...This verdict can bring citizens to have some trust in the judiciary and it can have a positive outcome for the regime because people don't trust it in general." - Osama Ghazali Harb, an editor and researcher at the Egypt-based Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, on the public's reaction to Moustafa's sentencing (New York Times...
...hero of You Look Nice Today is Robert Harbert, "Harb" to his pals. Harb is executive vice president of corporate process and procedure at the Global Fiduciary Trust Co., and he's a relatively generic specimen of the common suit: 44, nice guy, weak chin, happily married. Harb's troubles begin when he hires an attractive assistant named CaroleAnne. Over the next few years, it emerges that CaroleAnne, while quite good at her job, is in fact a nutcase. Even though Harb heaps raises and promotions on her, she becomes increasingly paranoid and hostile, and finally she quits and sues...
There you have the plot of You Look Nice Today, and it's the least interesting thing about it. Bing could have gone for a balanced, ambiguous, what-is-justice-really kind of tale, but he didn't. He made Harb a good guy and CaroleAnne an unsympathetic harpy--and anyway, sexual harassment doesn't have the crackle that it had back in the days of, say, Michael Crichton's Disclosure. The pleasure of Bing's novel lies in his masterful, merciless evocation of the executive milieu--the lunches, the banter, the petty slights, the Scotch-soaked male bonding. "Keep...
Bing is adept at sketching that surface, but he's not afraid to plunge his spoon into those creamy depths. What happens when a company man like Harb is yanked out of his cozy corporate cubby and thrown back on resources of introspection he hasn't used for decades? "He had been a man with a job, a huge title and many, many things to do," Bing writes. "Now it was full daylight on a weekday, and he had no tie on." You Look Nice Today is a comic novel with a tragic heart, and for a portrait of corporate...
...superiority of Islam and rejects assimilation with non-Muslim societies - is supplanting the more flexible faith that long prevailed in the diaspora. Fueled by Wahhabi funds from the Persian Gulf and a radical interpretation of the Koran, Muslim preachers insist that their European congregants are living in dar al-harb, the realm of war. They seek to reshape European Muslim communities into virtual ghettos. By mirroring the de facto separatism fostered by European attitudes, radical imams have created fertile ground for the recruitment and protection of terrorists. Throughout Europe, Muslims suffer high unemployment, poor health and low literacy rates. Nowhere...