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Until Sept. 11, 2001, the radical Islamic group Ansar al-Islam was considered a local problem. Based in the Kurdish controlled areas of northern Iraq, with a membership of militant fundamentalists determined to impose Islamic rule, the group raised its profile three years ago by blowing up beauty parlors and sloshing acid in the faces of unveiled Kurdish women. Ansar, like Saddam Hussein, is arrayed against the separatist Kurds of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdestan Democratic Party (KDP), whose ragtag forces lie between it and Baghdad. Ansar hates all infidels, but mainly the ones...
After assurances that the Orthodox Christian Fellowship and the Reformed Christian Fellowship do not deny membership to non-Christians, their grants were approved...
...trouble started last December, when Palestine's first-ever contender, the award-winning dramatic comedy Divine Intervention, was rejected by the Academy, reportedly because it doesn't recognize Palestine as a nation. An uproar followed, but Oscar may have gotten a bum rap. While the Academy does use membership in the U.N. as a guide for eligibility, Divine Intervention was never officially submitted...
Although the membership of the Orchestra consists of between 40 and 50 men, including most of the instruments needed for symphonic work, yet there is an urgent need for more brass and wood-wind, and it is hoped that all men in the University who play these instruments will join the Orchestra next year. The organization has in the past supplied such instruments as the bassoon, oboe, tympani, and double-bass when they are needed, and although in many cases starting with poor material on these instruments for which good players are seldom found in college, it has developed...
...board members also sent an e-mail to their membership saying they planned to do a thorough review of the guide and a tougher review of all future publications...