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Ever wish your English prof would cut down on that dreaded work load? Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher did just that last month: in a competition inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s famous short story, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” students in his class, “English 178x: The American Novel: Dreiser to the Present” were allowed exactly six words to write a story—plot, characters, conclusion, and all. The competition, proposed by a student in the class, mimicked a similar online...
...form a cabinet of technocrats as a way to dodge international sanctions against the government of Hamas, aimed at forcing the organization to renounce violence and recognize Israel. Palestinians negotiators told TIME that the new cabinet may still contain nine Hamas ministers, six from Fatah, five independents including Prof. Shabir, and four others from parties within the parliament. The next foreign minister is likely to be to a Georgetown educated professor, Ziad Abu Amr, 56, who has ties with Hamas even though he criticized their suicide bombing spree (halted since 2004) and thinks that the Islamic militants should soften some...
...never know exactly who killed Prof. Al-Rawi, or why they did it. Baghdad police, faced with scores of murders every day, rarely bother to investigate. Even though Al-Rawi insisted that his membership of the Association of Muslim Scholars had more to do with his faith than his politics, his killers may simply have seen him as a Sunni activist, the sectarian enemy...
...Prof. Al-Rawi would likely have left, too, if it hadn't been for his interest in the AMS - and his commitment to the professors' union. "If we all leave, we condemn the next generation of Iraqis to backwardness," he told me. "Without an intelligentsia, our society will retreat to the Middle Ages...
...doesn't matter which one of Prof. Al-Rawi's passions led to his murder. He once told me it would take "men of science and men of God to work together, to rebuild the body and soul of this country." This week Iraq has lost two more people who could have made a difference...