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...Victory justifies a lot, but experts on al-Qaeda warn that winning the war will not eliminate the organization. For Jacquard, a central significance of the tape was the overt support offered to al-Qaeda by a network of radical and militant Saudi clergy; bin Laden and al-Ghamdi mention four other clerics approvingly. "That kind of sympathy with Islamic militancy and rationalization of terror," says Jacquard, "has become common in Saudi Arabia and the gulf states." Ranstorp thinks the poem bin Laden recited- "Our homes are flooded with blood...we will not stop our raids/Until you free our lands...
...much of a cop-out as it may seem to blame the media, increasingly overt messages from popular culture have certainly made an impression on young people’s view of sex today. During my high school years, YM and Seventeen magazines were a vital source of information, and they often included special pullout sections revealing the essentials every girl had to know before, during and after the deed. Although these magazines were always careful to mention that virginity was an acceptable option, the constant emphasis on sex stood staunchly in contradiction to such claims. Virgins, after all, were...
...Aaliyah 's videos, for the most part, are about mood, not about storylines. They are usually lushly shot and infused with sexual tension, though not in overt and obvious ways. There are small shocks in her videos, but not graphic ones; she usually dances in her clips, but the sequences never look heavily choreographed. In general, Aaliyah 's videos tend to have a languid, liquid feel. They flow past the eye - rivers of color and skin and light. While most videos on MTV tend to leave the viewer amped up and hyped up and full of energy, Aaliyah 's videos...
...against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." Walker may well have fulfilled those requirements, but there's more. A defendant may be convicted only "on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court." Will two fellow fighters come forward to offer witness accounts of Walker's crime? Will an unrepentant Walker tell his own story to a judge and jury...
...beholder. Sometimes it is not enough to simply declare something secular, it must also be judged acceptable by other standards. As such, even interpreted as a religious symbol, a Christmas tree represents only the celebration of a single holiday event—it is not an overt theological statement, as is a crucifix. Like the sukkah, or temporary shelter, that was put up in the Leverett House courtyard during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot earlier in the fall, the Christmas tree should be allowed to stay. Both are, and should be allowed as, legitimate expressions of religiously diverse House communities...