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...Harvard wants its graduates to be active thinkers, citizens and leaders, it must first teach students the value of being active. It’s time for Harvard to listen to Reese Witherspoon, endorse exercise, and offer...
...papers didn't listen very carefully to the radio program - if they listened at all. The gar doesn't use Sharia law, says Yusuf. "It's not Islamic, it's not religious; it's just a cultural thing." And one the BBC reporter later conceded the case was a "rare oddity," which had been taken out of context by the papers crying foul...
...seem inclined to dredge up an old dispute. "I've gotten to know him over the last several years," says Jack Reed, an influential Armed Services Committee member. "And he strikes me as someone who's a pragmatist. He strikes me also as somebody who will listen, particularly to the uniformed services. In that respect, he'll be a very pleasant change from Secretary Rumsfeld." -with reporting by Massimo Calabresi
...leader has long maintained that the militias perform a valuable service, defending neighborhoods from attack by Sunni insurgents. In interviews with TIME, he has described the militias as akin to neighborhood watch committees. Bush may also find al-Hakim unwilling to listen to any complaints about the Mahdi Army of Moqtada al-Sadr. Although the two Shi'ite clerics are rivals, they have a mutual interest in keeping the U.S. at arm's length. Al-Hakim knows that if he goes along with any American plan to crack down on al-Sadr's militia, his own Badr Organization will likely...
...Hakim, however, was some sense of how Tehran views developments in Iraq. Having spent many years living in Iran, al-Hakim is plugged into the political and religious currents in the Islamic Republic. Bush has dismissed direct talks with Iran, but it would be a smart idea to listen to Tehran's proxies...