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...humanities have collapsed inward. It used to be there was a department of this and a department of that, but now there is a loosening of the old rigid department ties,” she says...
...based Teen Research Unlimited. "Parents are the No. 1 source of their money, but it's the kids who are choosing what to buy," says Wood. What they mainly buy, of course, is clothes, electronics, movies, CDs and games. But in the past few years, as Americans have turned inward and traveled less, kids with cash, abetted by their parents, have turned into decorating divas. WonderGroup, a market-research firm in Ohio, estimates that families spend $386 a year outfitting each child's room with furniture and electronic gear--about double the figure from a decade...
...creed had no place for free will or human rights, let alone separation of mosque and state. Wahhab partook of a historically typical hostility toward Christians and Jews. But he was less focused on infidels than he was inward-looking and obsessed with orthodoxy: he wrote that jihad should be postponed until the Islamic house was in order. He was more combative regarding his brethren. Although Muslims are forbidden to wage holy war against one another, Khaled Abou El Fadl, an expert in Islamic law at Yale University, says Wahhabis "argued that Muslims guilty of [unorthodoxy] could and should...
...that are mistrusted and resented by the majority of people who depend upon them. Where is our sense of urgency and accountability? We should be rethinking every assumption behind our purpose, message and methods. A century ago, managerial capitalism was the solution. Now it is the problem. The old inward focus has become pathological, leaving today’s capitalism badly out of touch with the very people it should be serving. It is time to admit that business is broken and cannot be fixed with today’s tools...
...that's precisely the point. Bayside Shakedown?and its sequel?are cop movies without the usual cop-movie trappings. Rather than focus on the derring-do of cowboy police collaring bad guys, these movies look inward, exploring?often hilariously?the petty annoyances, political infighting and endless frustrations of paperwork, bureaucracy and tight budgets that come with being a public servant. Though hardly by choice, Aoshima and his colleagues spend more time tracking down stolen receipts for their expense reports, angling for better-subsidized lunches and ferrying their bosses to golf tournaments than catching crooks. Yet the Bayside movies aren...