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...Arabia, directly challenged everything from the Meccan economic power structures of the day to the prevailing tribal views on women. Knight's novel opens with a poem, which Poursalehi set to music and which has become an anthem of sorts for the scene: "Muhammed was a punk rocker/ You know he tore s___ up/ Muhammed was a punk rocker/ Rancid sticker on his pickup truck." For Knight, now a graduate student in Islamic studies at Harvard University, the richness and elasticity of Islam has allowed a Muslim punk scene to develop and now flourish. "The energy of punk is about...
There are two kinds of celebrity crash because we now have two kinds of celebrity: attention controllers and attention seekers. Woods is an example of the former, whom you might also know as "people who are famous for actually doing things." Attention controllers' fame derives from some public competence; their private lives are used as complementary assets (setting the photo ops, selling the baby pics), but with tight boundaries...
...know how Yale was supposed to be way more lenient about tailgating at The Game? Someone forgot to tell the Yale Police...
...graduating class has created a vast amount of respect for the team, and set the bar higher than it has been in decades. And while the seniors know that they depart with a tremendous legacy, they too have confidence that their successors will uphold the program’s growing pedigree...
...Tuesday afternoon, a senior White House official who declined to be quoted by name dismissed McChrystal's call for a bigger Afghan force. "We know that number's out there," the official said, without mentioning that it was put out there by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. James Dubik, a retired Army general who trained the Iraqi military and is now a senior fellow at the independent Institute for the Study of War, argues that the Obama Administration needs to embrace McChrystal's goal. "There's a significant psychological effect on the Taliban if we announce we're going...