Word: meccas
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...fair, I had recently finished Social Studies 10, an inspiring and thought-provoking class and a mecca for social theory. Moreover, I had taken a few really bad classes here. It would be inappropriate to name names and go into them here, but in case any parents were wondering, awful classes at the greatest university in the cosmos do exist, and they are not an endangered species...
Conant, who hailed from an old Massachusetts family, was a prominent faculty member when he began his presidency in 1933. He spent 20 years transforming Harvard into an intellectual mecca whose faculty members were the best in their fields...
...village cemetery in Peusangan, an area near Bireun in northern Aceh that has been ravaged by conflict since the Indonesian military last week launched its massive campaign to crush the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM). As the gravediggers maneuvered Khairurrazi's body onto its side to face Mecca, blood seeped through his shroud. Khairurrazi, always a thin, sickly youth, had expected an illness to kill him. Instead, he was beaten and bayoneted, then shot in the head. "Half his skull was blown off," weeped his mother, Ramla, clutching a Muslim prayer book. "I had to pick up my poor...
...more than just good clean fun. It is an attempt to “re-establish the dominance of Mather as a party house,” says House Committee (HoCo) Chair Zachary A. Corker ’04. The rise of the Quad as a partying mecca, he says, has meant that “Mather’s reputation as a party dorm has slipped...
...Shiites performing a religious ritual in Iraq this week, you might question Wolfowitz's assumptions. In fact, Iraq's 15 million Shiites, around 65 percent of the population, are not by and large secular. They are, indeed, extremely sensitive about having holy cities of Islam on their territory. Yes, Mecca and Medina are in Saudi Arabia, but this week's ritual was performed in Kerbala, which along with Najaf are Iraqi cities which have been venerated for 14 centuries by Shiites as the resting places of their two most revered imams, Ali and Hussein. If there was any message...