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...liberals have an almost reflexive negative response to what they perceive to be unfair assaults on their morality by religious people, they often attempt to impose their own secular morality on religious people and implicitly chastise them for their “irrationality” or “narrow-mindedness...
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...Nobody doubts that without reclamation there wouldn't be a Hong Kong. The narrow band of land squeezed between the water and the hills of Hong Kong island was always too small to nourish the territory's ambitions. But the development of the city's waterfront has been both relentless and uncoordinated. Hong Kong has no central planning for the harbor: its use and misuse are dictated by more than a dozen competing government departments and covered by at least 15 separate zoning plans. Hong Kong's "relationship with the waterfront was always an awkward thing," says Richard Marshall...
...Hajjarah is only accessible by dirt road from the town of Manakha, with its old souks (markets) and narrow alleys. Located a hundred kilometers southwest of the capital, Sana'a, Manakha was once on the Spice Route to Europe. Expect to be beckoned into local tribesmen's hillside homes to share cups of shai (black, syrupy tea). "The real Arabia is still here in the mountains. The people here are very hospitable," says Muammer Al-Shamiry of Sana'a University, who regularly visits Al-Hajjarah. Hikes can be a few kilometers to over 100 km, and last from...
...There’s a lot of people, not necessarily at Harvard, who have a very narrow-minded view, who think that if people don’t know that you’re not supposed to clap between movements then they shouldn’t go to concerts,” Balliett says. “I think that’s ridiculous. You have to ask them, why are you performing? Are you just playing for each other? You could do that in your dorm room—you don’t need to rent Sanders Theater...