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...question of "is making yoga allowed?" does appears on Muslim web sites, and I've found myself wondering just who the doubting yogis might have been in all my many classes. The quiet types taking up the back row, who wear deliberately plain workout clothes? The chatty, devout housewives who got bored during the breathing exercises? That the forums' experts and mediators rule so contradictorily - some rule haram, while many more judge yoga harmless - suggests there is no fixed Islamic position on yoga, just as there is no fixed type of yoga itself. The place of yoga in the lives...
...diploma.) Recalling his college days, MacDonald writes, "I had fun. Loads of it. And not the kind of fun people look back on ten years later and regret. I didn't hurt anybody. I didn't steal anything. I didn't wreck any cars. It was a good time, plain and simple." When his favorite bar in Baltimore decided to shoot a TV commercial, MacDonald recalls being perfectly cast for the part: "a big fat guy who sat around and drank a lot - I was a natural choice...
...order, above all, is what the Chinese government is concerned about. Episodes like the one at Kai Da have become jarringly frequent in southern China in recent months, and the NDRC's Zhang, in a press conference yesterday in Beijing, made the government's nervousness plain. The central government is pressuring provincial authorities to make sure that employers pay severance according to the law, and in cases when they don't, to step in and pay the workers themselves. (Several provincial governments, according to Chinese press reports, have in turn complained that they don't have the funds to make...
...problems of policing are on plain view in Dili. Late one night, in a shanty-lined street, TIME is hailed by a man bearing an assault rifle and surrounded by a group of drunken friends. He claims he is part of the Health Minister's police bodyguard and says the weapon is kept close at hand in case of an urgent call for help...
...song. Generally, people fall into two camps. If they have at one time considered it a "guilty pleasure," a dim-witted power ballad made by guys with bad haircuts to be enjoyed despite its inherent cheesiness, they probably identify most with indie music of some stripe. If they just plain like it and always have, then they've probably spent their lives enjoying whatever was on the radio. You'll notice no consideration of those who don't care for the song at all, because, well - are there people like that...