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...books has started to warn that some of Europe's cherished traditions are under attack. In While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within, expatriate American author Bruce Bawer, who lives in Oslo, paints a picture of a weakened and directionless Europe besieged by extremists intent on imposing Shari'a law. Barring a sudden about-face in Europe's policy of "appeasement" toward "intolerant" Islam, says Bawer, Europe faces "a long twilight of Balkanization with Europe divided into warring pockets of Muslims and non-Muslims." A new best-selling volume from Denmark titled Islamists...
...meant to reflect the city’s famed archaeological sites and also previously conceived pieces by world-renowned contemporary artists. “The Grand Promenade” displayed a great variety of media, as well as a fascinating representation of artists with strikingly different national backgrounds and intent. As the exhibition opened two days after the beginning of the war in Lebanon, the photographic installation by Fouad Elkoury of the Israeli invasion in 1983 became painfully relevant and extraordinarily moving—especially when the artist himself could not be present at the opening because of the destruction...
...women’s rights,” said panelist Julie F. Kay, a staff attorney at Legal Momentum, a New York-based women’s rights advocacy group. Speaking to a packed lecture hall, Kay said abstinence-only programs are designed with a “real intent to make girls fearful of sex.” She cited “Free Teens,” a New-Jersey based program that states “Sex may make you feel good, but it can kill you or make you sterile.” These programs also...
Exploding offers are named for their immediacy. For non-Ivy League schools, offering a binding letter of intent to a student also attractive to Harvard—and demanding a signature—can be considered an exploding offer. For early admission Ivy League schools, which cannot offer athletic scholarships, telling a student—usually over the summer or early in their senior year—that the school will advocate for the student only if he applies early, can also be considered an exploding offer...
...charges were dropped yesterday against one of the two defendants charged with verbally and physically abusing an openly gay Harvard undergraduate, more than a year after the incident took place. Jose T. Sousa, 26, of Cambridge, had earlier pled not guilty to charges of intent to intimidate stemming from an incident that took place outside Adams House in April 2005. And in Middlesex District Court yesterday, Assistant District Attorney Jessica Noble successfully lobbied the judge to dismiss charges against Sousa. Timothy J. Kelleher—the other defendant in the case and the individual suspected of actually striking the victim?...