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Most Muslims resemble Protestants in that no priest mediates between the believer and God (although the 10% Shi'ite minority is more enamored of its imams). Like Christians, Muslims evangelize and look forward to the eventual conversion of the human race. The faith's directness, bright-line moral stances and the absence of hierarchy have proved attractive to converts in the U.S., while its role for women, who make up only 15% of average Friday mosque attendance, repels some seekers...
Reshoots, rewrites, omissions and postponements are, relatively speaking, speed bumps. The hard question is whether pop culture has moved permanently to an old-fashioned war footing, eschewing moral ambiguity for earnestness. Have we shifted so suddenly from a Sex and the City culture to a Band of Brothers culture...
...Tony Kushner opens Homebody/Kabul, set in Afghanistan in 1998, the year of American air strikes in response to bin Laden's U.S. embassy bombings in Africa. Despite the now incendiary subject, Kushner says he "wouldn't change a thing" in the script. "Even a country at war has a moral imperative to think about the people with whom they are fighting and ask questions about them," he says. All of us are likely to crave escape in the months ahead. But we should be afraid to live in a country where entertainment that deals with people's fears is untouchable...
Harvard has already donated $1 million to a project appropriate for its role as a university: the funding of higher education for the children and spouses of the Sept. 11 victims. Harvard’s gift was generous, and it should feel no moral qualms about accepting donations from individuals with no connection to terrorism or terrorists save the unfortunate coincidence of family or name...
Outside of a few breaks in the opening 15 minutes from last year’s Ivy scoring leader Chandra King, Harvard reduced the Yale attack to the point where the home crowd began considering a possession in Harvard territory that lasted longer than a few seconds a moral victory...