Word: maher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very wise move," said Henderson Professor of the Psychology of Personality Brendan A. Maher. "They will be factual. I know both of [them] very well...
That said, it is far from certain that the conference will have lasting impact. Most U.N. action programs seem to be the bureaucratic equivalent of Tibetan mandalas, those intricate designs of colored sand arduously crafted through years of work. Once completed, they are allowed to blow away into oblivion. Maher Mahran, Egypt's outspoken Population Minister, endorsed the conference for "energizing" governments to face a crucial issue but said he doubted that countries would pay attention to the specifics of the action plan...
Sadik, meanwhile, counterattacked. "There is so much misinformation going around that it generates its own momentum," she said. "I don't think the conference opponents have even read the draft document." Egyptian Population Minister Dr. Maher Mahran was more emphatic. "We all live in one boat," he told a gathering of Arab organizations just prior to the conference. "No country can withdraw, set itself aside, and those who do this are defeatists." At least one prominent conservative Egyptian religious leader defended the meeting, assuring Muslims that Mubarak had promised the U.N. document would not impose rules contravening Islamic teaching...
Television: Political comics Dennis Miller and Bill Maher...
...Much of Maher's material, both on Politically Incorrect and in his frequent, funny bits on Leno's Tonight Show, has an absurdist playfulness. He knows a doctor so specialized that "he only operates on the wazoo." To pay for universal health care, he suggests, "wouldn't it be easier if everybody would just examine the person to your left?" Despite its sprung logic, though, Maher's work is still satire, sneakier than Miller's but just as potent. "We will strive," said Miller on his first show, "to be in the vanguard of the movement to irresponsibly blur...