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...settings in Fellowship, has a grave gusto that energizes every moment. For this episode is a very war-y war movie, a long assault to determine whether the crusading companions of Frodo the Ring-bearer will survive to confront their ultimate destiny. A palpable pall hangs over the realm of Rohan, where King Théoden (Bernard Hill) has been bewitched by evil wizard Saruman (Christopher Lee) and his spy Gríma Worm-tongue (Brad Dourif, as a slimier Richard III). Heroic Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) and the elf-warrior Legolas (Orlando Bloom) band with a revived Gandalf to defend...
While Chopra has dealt mainly with implementing administrative change, Stannard-Friel’s specialty lies within the student body’s social realm...
...think it’s very important to have a president who sees from the student perspective what’s wrong with the UC,” Darst says. “Coming from within the realm of Harvard academia and social life, and a student group and involvement perspective, I’ve seen how little the UC has done and how much I think it could...
...destabilizing effects of globalization. "Shari'a presents a logical framework for sustainable development," says Assem. "It's not utopian like socialism, and it isn't all about exploitation and profit like capitalism. It's all-encompassing. The more you learn, the more sense it makes." In the social realm, Assem grants that Shari'a is more restrictive than Western norms and lifestyles. "Women are to be admired, not used for cigarette advertisements," he says. But he blames later traditions not derived from Shari'a for the extreme subjugation of women in the Islamic world - and his wife, Sana, agrees. Though...
...Islam and rejects assimilation with non-Muslim societies - is supplanting the more flexible faith that long prevailed in the diaspora. Fueled by Wahhabi funds from the Persian Gulf and a radical interpretation of the Koran, Muslim preachers insist that their European congregants are living in dar al-harb, the realm of war. They seek to reshape European Muslim communities into virtual ghettos. By mirroring the de facto separatism fostered by European attitudes, radical imams have created fertile ground for the recruitment and protection of terrorists. Throughout Europe, Muslims suffer high unemployment, poor health and low literacy rates. Nowhere do they...