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...euphoria over Ishmeet Singh's victory reflects the need of the Sikh community's elders to find turbaned role models. While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, always seen with a spiffy turban, is an obvious example, Sikh leaders also hail pop culture icons such as the "turbanator" - cricket hero Harbhajan Singh - and popstar Daler Mehndi, whose glittering turbans are said to have inspired many a short-haired Sikh to take to the turban. Sikh organizations from Vancouver to Melbourne are renewing efforts at prachar, or preaching, to the 3 million-strong Sikh diaspora. Schools to teach young Sikhs...
...Iowans will choose their Republican presidential nominee. I hope they pick former Gov. Mitt Romney. To me, Romney is the obvious choice, but my Republican friends groan over my enthusiasm...
...lack of a dominant offensive presence was painfully obvious during the Crimson’s 2-2 tie with Vermont on Saturday night. With the game on the line, there was no single player that Harvard could count on to be a difference-maker...
...will blink first? It has become obvious to the international community that the Bush Administration is now isolated within the U.S. on climate change. Senator John Kerry visited Bali on Monday, trumpeting recent congressional action on climate change, while a parade of U.S. mayors and governors will be stopping by to talk about growing grassroots efforts. With the Bush Administration almost a lame duck, European countries and others advocates of aggressive emissions cuts finally have hope that Washington will be a leader, not an obstacle...
...unremarkable" men, as a 2007 report on radicalization by the New York Police Department (NYPD) puts it, or "a group of guys," as U.S. intelligence officials call them. That's the best they can do, since the profile of a would-be terrorist is becoming less and less obvious. In that kind of fog, small behaviors necessarily loom large. In Australia, the NYPD report noted, before 17 men were arrested with bombmaking materials and maps of government buildings, some had traveled to the outback for a group bonding and hunting adventure. One month before the July 7, 2005, London transit...