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Summers was mum regarding his political chances...
...other motive for keeping mum has to do with the simplistic and largely negative characterization of Islam and the Arab world post-9/11, to which the government itself must plead guilty. Though few have gone as far as televangelist Pat Robertson, who called the prophet Muhammad “an absolute wild-eyed fanatic…a killer,” or Fox News personality Sean Hannity, who compared the Quran to Mein Kampf, the idea persists that there is something possibly threatening, and definitely unsettling, about Islam...
...thing to wear. Once you hit a certain age, it's hard to find the garment that says, "I still care, don't count me out, but I'm not delusional." If you go too young, you look desperate. If you go too old, you go right to Queen Mum. I was in a store a while ago and I saw this really cute shirt and the young boutique owner rushed over to me and said, "That top is adorable." I said, "I know, but you don't think it's too young?" She said, "No." I said, "The sleeves...
...schools, youth clubs and even families have failed? When the large, hysterical mother of one of the young men stopped by police came running in response to word that her son was in cuffs (he wasn't), she was met with a snarling rebuke: "You can [go] home now, mum...
Artist Yi Zhou's latest sculpture has all the trappings of a Cold War - era secret, so she's appropriately mum about the details of its creation. What she will say is that it took help from NASA scientists to shape her medium, a translucent substance called aerogel, into a likeness of a human heart. For the Shanghai-born artist, the absorbent material - used aboard NASA's Stardust probe to trap dust from comet tails - represented a new artistic frontier. Cajoling some from the space agency took years. "I had to show them I was serious," she says...