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After Summers left, Lee clarified her recent proposal to bring controversial issues before the council, saying that she will address only issues that pertain to student life at Harvard...
...EXCLUSIVE PROVIDER ORGANIZATION: Like old-school HMOs, EPOs require subscribers to see doctors in network, but laws that apply to HMOs may not pertain to them. This means that EPOs, which are usually put in place by penny-pinching employers and use gatekeepers to authorize anything beyond primary care, may not be obliged to cover certain medical conditions...
...everything the authors present fits within the framework of their thesis. In some ways this is a testament to the depth of the authors research. In each section, the authors survey the broad categories of governance, the faculty, the college and the professional schools, describing the key issues that pertain to each of these areas. This makes for a comprehensive and thorough account, but it also means that the continuing problems with the Sanskrit department are discussed three times. The problem, though, is that these issues have little to do with meritocracy or worldliness, and the Kellers have to stretch...
...bids Islamic victors to "show [civilians] kindness and deal with them justly." In the Hadiths, or traditions of Muhammad, the Prophet commands, "Neither kill the old...nor children and babes nor the females," and is portrayed as appalled to discover a woman's corpse on a battlefield. Similar protections pertain to farmers and tradesmen. Even the slaughter of enemy soldiers is enjoined if no war has been declared. "It's basically the Geneva Convention," says Jamal Badawi, a well-known Islamic interpreter who teaches at St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Badawi compares the acts of Sept...
...history of legal institutions in Islamic states past and present, particularly insofar as they uphold or apply the Islamic shari’a.” Another, at the Harvard Design School, provides money for “advanced studies in Islamic architecture...and appropriate building technologies as they pertain to Islamic built environments...