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...street, Sherbini provides an easy outlet for Egyptian frustration - a distraction, some say, from the more serious abuses of an authoritarian regime. "The whole thing is just stupid. But it's convenient," says popular blogger Mahmoud Salem. "It's an opportunity to have fake outrage because it keeps Egyptians busy...
...imams nationwide, lists five causes of harassment, including weak religious awareness and mental and cultural emptiness. It also suggests ways to tackle the problem. "When the imams realize that sexual harassment is a social hazard, and they understand the reasons behind it, then they start spreading the message," says Salem Geleil, Egypt's Deputy Minister of Endowments and the booklet's editor. "Egyptians are very religious ... So when you approach a cause from a religious point of view, the response is very strong...
...People just don't write letters anymore," says his daughter Heather Bellanca. And by people, she means anyone more than 20 years younger than Murray, who lives by himself in Middlebury, Vt. So in an effort to keep him connected, Bellanca, who lives a couple of hours away in Salem, N.Y., this spring started spending $9.95 a month for a service that sends him letters every week - letters family and friends e-mail to a company that prints the correspondence and delivers it, via U.S. Postal Service, to Murray's door...
...always willing to lend a hand, often offering to help his neighbors carry the groceries.“He was a mama’s boy,” Denise Cosby said, adding that her son chose to live with her and commute 15 miles to Salem State College, which he attended part-time until this spring.Cosby, who had completed roughly three semesters’ worth of work, officially withdrew in April, school officials said. Although Cosby had not declared his major, Denise Cosby said that her son had shared his post-college plans of “going into...
...Washington’s a few hours away, but Harvard recently became a similar ground zero for this belief in The Total Answer. The unexpected shooting of a Salem State student on campus a few weeks ago had an almost cinematic quality: start with a shocking, utterly incomprehensible act of violence, loop back to the origins of the event. That gunshot, ripping open a balmy May afternoon, exposed a network of campus drug use, undergrads both buying and selling. Students and police are still trying to piece it together, to tie together the shards they’ve been left...