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...Friday sermons to thousands of worshippers, says that the city is simply experiencing the kind of religious feeling that was impossible under the communist rule of the former Yugoslavia's leader, Josip Broz Tito. Like others in Sarajevo, Halilovic also accuses Serb politicians of falsely portraying Sarajevo as a hub of militant Islam in order to win over Western sympathies, and says Western journalists have engaged in "Islamophobia." "You can see more Islam in Paris and London," he says. "So why should people returning to Islam be a problem...
...also a chef and a self-taught interior designer, says that when he first saw the waterfront building that houses his restaurant, "I thought it reminded me of Shanghai." That could be because it's flanked by colonial-era buildings with an upcoming casino resort and new financial hub just meters away...
...understand why, let's go back to May 2005. Back then, CEOs loved China because it had become the world's low-cost, increasingly high-quality manufacturing hub. They loved its vast and growing ranks of middle-class consumers. Most of all, the capitalist bosses loved working with officials of the nominally communist Chinese government, who were far easier to deal with than the politicians back home. And why not? On one side, you had autocrats who feared losing their grip on power if the economy didn't keep growing; on the other were autocrats who feared losing their grip...
Barack Obama began his latest overseas trip on a mission to increase international cooperation, with a visit to Islam's holiest land, Saudi Arabia, and its most dynamic intellectual hub, Cairo. He ended it four days later at a monument to what such common purpose can achieve...
...student or graduate of Harvard, the Houses are not simply residential outposts of University Hall. They are the very heart of Harvard College, the hub of the wheel that holds together, for students, the often-bewildering complexity of Harvard administration. This is where students live, where their academic records are kept, where their successes are heralded, their vulnerabilities noticed and responded to. This is where they will today receive their diplomas. The Houses are cherished not only by students, but also by tutors, faculty, and staff who are part of these unique, intergenerational, academic communities. Undermining the House system cannot...