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...Arab pressure on the Iraqi government will force it to give Sunnis a greater share of power. "If the Arab states don't come to our help, they will find [Iran] at their gate," says Mohammed Bashar al-Faidi, a spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars. "For the sake of the entire Muslim community worldwide, the beast has to be destroyed in Iraq." For leaders of terrorist groups, the fear of a regionwide Shi'ite ascendancy serves as a useful fund-raising tool as well as recruiting propaganda. Radical Sunni preachers and TV talk-show hosts across the Arab...
...decide, for example, what medical treatments to undergo, when a defendant in court has been proven guilty, whether to support a policy proposal and how to manage their personal finances." Does this mean balancing a checkbook is on a par with balancing equations? What about learning for learning's sake? What about the study of history, which Harvard will no longer require, even though its recently announced new president, Drew Gilpin Faust--the first woman to head the institution--is a renowned historian...
Once the rest of the YouTube generation enters the workplace, "video résumés are going to be as ubiquitous as PDAs or iPods," says Mark Oldman, a co-president of Vault.com. Just leave out the gangsta rap. For your sake and ours...
...This moral flexibility is most evident when it comes to modern marriage. Like so many seemingly fixed or imposed beliefs, hejab can be tinkered with for the sake of an attractive marriage proposal. In the Iran of today, where marrying "up" to improve one's social or financial standing is more imperative than in a Jane Austen novel, women commonly adjust their head covering to match their prospective partner's degree of religiosity...
...preview editor Barry Gewen, who gave a talk at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, said he didn’t want to pursue potential staffers strictly for diversity’s sake...