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...Nov. 13 story, "Visiting Scholar Addresses Islamic Politics in Yemen," contained a number of factual errors. The story referred to the practice of declaring that another has given up faith in Islam as "tut phir" instead of "takfir," misstated the title of the talk, and misquoted the speaker as saying "comparative politics" when she in fact said "competitive politics...
...York commuters exited subways and turned street corners Nov. 12 to be greeted by friendly hawkers all over the city handing out copies of the New York Times. Some thought the Times had finally printed enough extra copies of its Nov. 5 edition with Barack Obama's victory front page so that there was one for everybody. But the papers were suspiciously free and had this massive headline across the top: "IRAQ WAR ENDS." Hmm. A closer look revealed that the papers, dated July 4, 2009, weren't the product of the New York Times but an elaborately constructed copycat...
...nothing," says Richard Allen, an associate professor of earth and planetary science at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of the reason can be attributed to the U.S.'s superior earthquake preparation - California has strict building codes that are designed to prevent structures from collapse, and events like the Nov. 13 ShakeOut teach individuals what to do in an emergency. For the most part, though, the low death tolls can be attributed to luck. "We haven't had a big earthquake beneath one of our metropolitan centers yet," Allen says. "For example, in '89, the quake started beneath the mountains...
...amicable transfers of power between the parties in recent years - thanks in no small part to the extraordinary efforts of the current occupant of the Oval Office. Planning for the handoff was under way well before the Obamas paid a visit to the Bushes at the White House on Nov. 10 for a tour of the place that they, their daughters and the new President's mother-in-law will soon be calling home. Since September, Podesta has been quietly working with current White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and Bolten's deputy, Blake Gottesman, to make sure...
...Receding Right Flash forward to the evening of Nov. 4, and you can see why liberalism has sprung back to life. Ideologically, the crowds who assembled to hear Obama on election night were linear descendants of those egg throwers four decades before. They too believe in racial equality, gay rights, feminism, civil liberties and people's right to follow their own star. But 40 years later, those ideas no longer seem disorderly. Crime is down and riots nonexistent; feminism is so mainstream that even Sarah Palin embraces the term; Chicago mayor Richard Daley, son of the man who told police...