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...difficult to argue with those reduce intellectual discourse of complicated issues within Islam to mere sensationalist phrases about the religion itself. No credible academic—on either side of the aisle—would so completely ignore socio-political, historic, and economic issues that are fundamentally entrenched in the idea of Islamo-fascism...

Author: By Nadia O. Gaber | Title: Neo-Fascism Awareness Week | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...force of will, determination, sweat, and drive, have worked our way into this grand institution. But at the other end, you have the increasingly burdensome and unyielding pressure to perform. With the difference between success and a failure—in sports at least—boiling down to mere milliseconds, the incentives are all in place for PED’s to creep in. The way I see it, to be a professional athlete and not use PED’s right now would be tantamount to not striving—the epitome of what America detests...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Steroid Nation | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

This year, Robertson may need to acquire an autopen. The iconic British car company is expecting already rising sales to soar. Well, relatively speaking. This is, after all, a company whose ambition is to sell a mere 1,000 cars a year. That's a goal now in reach, thanks to upcoming expansions of the Rolls product line, increasing numbers of extremely rich potential buyers, and fast-growing Asian markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rolls-Royce: Rolling in Dough | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...were not as concerned. “We don’t really have alcohol at our social events, so it was largely irrelevant,” says Ren J. Zhao ’08, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association. Zhao found the new wording a mere technicality, asking “when is the safety of the people who come to our social events not our top priority...

Author: By S. JESSE Zwick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Game Over? | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...that had been set up on Facebook. He wandered around Las Colinas and its side streets for about three hours, watching some residents try to save their property, others assessing their destroyed homes. He says he saw 19 homes completely leveled by fire, the cars in front of them mere tire rims. Several of the remains were apparently antique cars from private collections. He also checked on the horses of some friends and discovered two animals in a large corral, "a little freaked out" but safe. He got word to the owners who sent in a trailer to rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfing the Santa Ana | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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