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Armstrong, a scholar in residence at Lowell House, presented the excessively rapid and at times oppressive secularization of Muslim countries as a possible explanation for their fundamentalism. “Fundamentalism often develops in a symbiotic relationship with secularism,” she said...
Leading the charge is Cameron Gray, a paunchy Texan with a booming laugh, who greets the startled street people in rapid-fire Spanish. Checking a nearby culvert for more mouths to feed, he spots a bedraggled young woman lying, arms outstretched in the dirt, with three young daughters sleeping by her side. Gray dispenses food and then reaches into a bag for three Beanie Babies. "It's people like these, who are the hardest to help, that need our help the most," he remarks...
...live off of chickpeas forever. Elizabeth, with her cheesy music and relatively conventional wisdom, has forced her new friends to think not about what should make them happy, but what does make them happy. Perhaps her greatest influence is in forcing her brother to confront his rapidly degenerating relationship with Lena, a confrontation that climaxes with a rapid, noisy, raucous scene that is one of the film’s highlights...
...easier if the Taliban disintegrates, as a number of analysts suggest it may in the face of even limited military action by the West. The Taliban's remarkable rise to power was assisted in no small part by direct support from Pakistan, which has now been withdrawn. And its rapid march on Kabul was facilitated by the defection of many field commanders loyal to Rabbani who sensed a shift in the political winds. It is widely expected that a similar dynamic may work against the Taliban once it comes under concerted military pressure. And Pakistan is now reportedly working...
...Current Situation Room on the second floor of the Pentagon. Powell was waiting there for him. Amid the maze of projection screens, television monitors and colored telephones, they drafted the advice on military responses Cheney would offer Bush [Sr.]: the U.S. could?and must?defend Saudi Arabia with a rapid infusion of military might...