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Because my expertise is limited to five and a half seasons’ worth of loyal 24 viewing (as the hours pile up, I am forced to ask myself if maybe there was something more productive I could have done with this almost-week of my life than obsessively track the exploits of super-agent Jack Bauer. The answer, of course is no.) and a couple of seasons on the staff of the Greenwich Village Little League Cubs, I decided to enlist the opinions of several Harvard baseball players...
...George W. Bush's critics undermine our troops [Feb. 19]. Why is it that so many of the politicians who are dedicated to sending Americans off to war have never seen combat? The foremost examples, of course, are Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, but now you can add loyal disciple Lieberman to that list...
...Those loyal to Mu'awiyah and his successors as Caliph would eventually be known as Sunnis, meaning followers of the Sunnah, or Way, of the Prophet. Since the Caliph was often the political head of the Islamic empire as well as its religious leader, imperial patronage helped make Sunni Islam the dominant sect. Today about 90% of Muslims worldwide are Sunnis. But Shi'ism would always attract some of those who felt oppressed by the empire. Shi'ites continued to venerate the Imams, or the descendants of the Prophet, until the 12th Imam, Mohammed al-Mahdi (the Guided...
...backing of the U.S., in many Arab eyes it represented the expansion of Iran's influence. Sunni Arab leaders have begun to ratchet up their rhetoric against Shi'ites in general and Iran in particular. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2006 said, "Most of the Shi'ites are loyal to Iran and not to the countries they are living in." After a storm of protest from Iraq and elsewhere, Mubarak claimed he had been referring only to matters of religion. In the predominantly Sunni Palestinian territories, supporters of Fatah have taken to branding their Hamas rivals...
...country and loyalty to one’s moral standards is the core struggle for the characters in the film. Donnersmarck juxtaposes different technical elements to deepen the intensity of the decisions that the characters must make. For example, the cold, bland, dark colors of those characters loyal to the state are complemented by the warm, decorative, and vibrant surroundings of more liberal characters. The plot centers on the government of the GDR, a prevalent force in the lives of East Germany’s citizens through a vast system of spies and security controls. With the help...