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...choices they have made and the paths they have taken in life mirror the choices that a polarized Pakistan must also make. Should the nation move forward and be part of the modern world? Or will it seek answers from the past and retreat into a rigid interpretation of Islam? Can it do both? The sometimes violent clash between progressive moderates and dogmatic hard-liners is increasingly defining Pakistan?when it should be the resolution of that conflict that defines it instead...
...intolerance that troubles her most. She lashes out in one of her poems at those who "brandish religion like a sword." She says, "The mistake made by intellectuals and the learned class, including myself, is that we avoid meeting religious people. I myself am very rigid and I don't like meeting them." Coming from the same family helps keep Attiya and Aslam from open conflict?but their troubled country lacks such a mediating force. As Pakistan aids the U.S. in the coming weeks, its vocal hard-line minority?already urging a jihad against the U.S. and openly warning...
Much of the hoopla that usually ensues each time Dershowitz announces his next case clouds what he says are rigid guidelines he follows in choosing his clients, a task which he says is, “the hardest thing...
Course selection for first-years has always been rough, with many new students finding themselves adrift among the disappointing homogeneity of Core offerings, the impersonal vastness of Social Analysis 10 and the rigid format of some Expository Writing courses. This year, however, the first-year experience is beginning to change, as students find refuge in the newly expanded Freshman Seminar program...
With this constrained focus, the Kellers come to the somewhat structurally rigid conclusion that two changes separate the last 70 years of Harvard history into three distinct eras. First, under the direction of University President James B. Conant 14 (from 1933 to 1953), the University transformed from the Brahmin university of the first third of the 20th century to a meritocratic one. Relying on demographic shifts and the detailed dissection of many of the controversies and developments of the 1930s and 1940s, the Kellers show how the University increasingly embraced the ideal of the best and the brightest, even when...