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...with the Sufis of the Indus,”—the pieces on view portray the multiplicity found in Sufi traditions. “This book and exhibition is a personal and artistic act of resistance against those forces both within Islam and outside of it that seek to deny such nuances, to silence the voices of mystics, and to distill the diversity of Islamic piety into something essential, unitary, and uniform,” Quraeshi said in her speech at the opening of “Sacred Spaces...
...years ago, the FDIC had about $52 billion in its deposit-insurance fund. Today that fund is technically broke. The agency has money reserved to cover anticipated failures but no cash remaining for unforeseen blowups. It has asked banks to prepay three years' worth of premiums and could seek emergency funds from the U.S. Treasury...
...government. A global marketplace that links the trader on Wall Street to the homeowner on Main Street to the factory worker in China -- an economy in which we all share opportunity is also an economy in which we all share crisis. We face threats to our security that seek -- there are threats to our security that are based on those who would seek to exploit the very interconnectedness and openness that's so essential to our prosperity. The system of energy that powers our economy also undermines our security and endangers our planet...
...directly working with one another.” The difficulty is in knowing that this community exists and knowing where to find it. “I’m not going to go out of my way to get in touch with recent grads, but if they seek me out, I would give them advice,” actor Dan A. Cozzens ’03 added...
...Arts—screened the film for many of her male graduate students during post-production. Just as she hoped, even the unmarried, childless, 20-something males in her classes still appreciated the humor and honesty of the film. Thurman dismisses the idea that only women would seek out the film. “When you watch ‘Sid and Nancy,’ is that movie just for druggies?” she asks. “I mean, I watch films about men. Sometimes they’re boring, but when someone does something well...