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...applicant's two teacher recommendations. A more gushing letter came from his boss at the pizza place where he worked after school, detailing Theater Boy's rapport with the restaurant's immigrant cooks. "He sure sounds like a wonderful employee," said Walbridge. Field interjected, "But is he a real scholar?" Theater Boy wrote that he wants to study politics and history. But the two readers wondered why he hadn't studied more of them already. Theater Boy's moment was fading as quickly as it had come. "The more I think about it, I don't see enough real scholarship...
...fury, there is an exhilaration. In a dozen Middle East capitals, mass demonstrations call for death to the Jews. This euphoria, points out Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes, has not been seen since 1967. It comes from the feeling that the Jews...
Miratul Muqit, a visiting scholar at Harvard Medical School who attended the rally, said he heard about the event through an e-mail message from the Harvard Islamic Society. He said he attended because he felt it was "a peaceful vigil that the media can't twist to perpetuate the stereotype of Muslims...
...other in five minutes. But what worlds you pass in a handful of time! On your way in, you may pass old, tired Jews leaning for support and planting kisses on the Western Wall as if they were caressing their grandchildren. Moments later, you skirt by a Muslim scholar, a white turban wrapped around his scarlet fez. He is bent double in the shade of a pine, scrubbing his feet and hands as he prepares to pray in al-Aqsa Mosque. The air is alive with the sacred mumblings of Hebrew and Arabic. It smells like dust and cumin...
...also won for the moment the hearts of the Serbian people who had given him their votes two weeks earlier. Kostunica's ability to unite the fractious Serbian opposition and defeat Slobodan Milosevic at the polls was an astonishing political feat, but even his allies wondered whether the taciturn scholar had it in him to lead a popular revolt. He did. Kostunica didn't want events to be settled in Belgrade's streets, but once the revolution started, his simultaneous exhortations for freedom and peace helped ensure that it remained bloodless. True to form, Kostunica displayed little emotion during...