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...banal. But it's there too--in the meetings the priests convene to schedule their planting dates and combat the problem of crop pests; in the plans they draw up to maintain aqueducts and police conduits; in the irrigation proposals they consider and approve, the dam proposals they reject or amend. "The religion has a temple at every node in the irrigation system," says David Sloan Wilson, professor of biology and anthropology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y. "The priests make decisions and enforce the code of both religion and irrigation...
...Manuel Dur?o Barroso either replace Buttiglione or shuffle him out of the Justice, Freedom and Security post. Barroso declined, instead promising to spread responsibility for antidiscrimination enforcement among several new Commissioners. Not good enough, say Buttiglione's opponents. The Parliament can't turn down individual Commissioners, but it can reject the Commission as a whole. And that's exactly what some groups are threatening this week. "The Socialist Group cannot vote in favor of this Commission," says its leader, Martin Schulz of Germany. "We do not have confidence in it." Only the center-right European People's Party supports Barroso...
...example, a college may encourage “marginal” students to apply only to reject them, thus increasing the college’s apparent selectivity...
...visited again, railing that India?then in the midst of a crisis caused by Indira Gandhi's decision to suspend democracy?was "left alone with the blankness of its decayed civilization." The only hope, Naipaul argued, was that the country had failed so completely that Indians would reject their past and start over...
...historically racist leadership of Arab countries is still hostile to the very idea of black humanity. I would call on Arab students within the United States, many of whom sought legal protection under statutes originally gained by black struggle after 9/11 made them targets for racial discrimination, to reject this moral hypocrisy and stand up and condemn the inaction of the Arab League and participate in the movement to protect human life in Sudan...