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...Muslims' troubles. Various Muslim organizations receive funding from abroad to promote segregation, fundamentalism and terrorist activities. The Muslim hinterlands have been flash points for communal clashes. In Bangladesh and Pakistan, unpublicized atrocities are meted out by Muslims on minority Hindus. And there is always the example of Kashmir to heighten the ire of those who are predisposed to zealotry. Ever since the creation of an independent India and separate Pakistan, lives have been lost in the name of the two religions. Krishna Prasad Paudel Singapore...
...studio in lower Manhattan, he and his assistants sit at computer keyboards to soften lighting, heighten colors or erase crowsfeet. (The hardest flaw to deal with? "Bad toes.") But in a day when fashion magazines are publishing "Frankenstars"--women assembled for the page by bolting a head from one shot to a body from another--some of the flesh-and-blood stars are protesting. In recent months Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts have complained that they were unreasonably remade (not by Dangin) on magazine covers. "Postproduction capability should not be looked at as a voodoo practice," he insists...
...eliciting from our well-heeled fellow patrons. With the wait staff bustling around our table, positioning the impressive display just so, and setting our places with beautiful Asian-inspired dishes, we attracted quite a bit of attention. The flamboyance of the tea, however, only served to heighten our sense of conscious decadence as we devoured the sinfully rich treats. While all delicious, our personal favorites were the caviar creations. Followed by a sip of our perfectly mixed drinks, the salty fish eggs were the ultimate delicacy...
Uday's physical ailments seemed to heighten his sadistic tendencies. According to his chief bodyguard, when Uday learned that one of his close comrades, who knew of his many misdeeds, was planning to leave Iraq, he invited him to his 37th-birthday party and had him arrested. An eyewitness at the prison where the man was held says members of the Fedayeen grabbed his tongue with pliers and sliced it off with a scalpel so he could not talk. A maid who cleaned one of Uday's houses says she once...
...some form to the GSD. The best structure of that relationship would need to be strategically determined, but undergraduates would not necessarily be seen as a burden at the GSD. Instead, they would bring a unique perspective—informed by a liberal arts background—that would heighten conversation and debate in the classroom...