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Every day Fayez Zeidan, 36, wanders around Bethlehem looking for work. He seldom finds it. Before the intifadeh, which began in September 2000, he was a construction worker in Israel and labored side by side with Israelis. "In those days the mutual confidence was so great," he says. "We used to go to Israeli restaurants and cities and take weekend picnics without being questioned." No longer. Once the intifadeh put a stop to easy transit from the West Bank into Israel, Fayez lost his job. "To be honest with you, we live on charity," he says. His small two-bedroom...
...Indians-growing up with several languages and used to juggling cultures and traditions-have an edge over people from, say, a unicultural, often homogeneous Japan. Insofar as English is the global village's lingua franca, voluble, language-loving Indians brought up on Tennyson and Tagore are holding the festivals seldom heard of in Japan. And insofar as the most dominant new force in the world today is computer technology, Indians, famous for both their technological and business skills, are ever more in evidence, even if using Toshiba laptops. Japan may produce our hardware. India often supplies the software...
...minded perspective and truly broadened knowledge. Admittedly, this innovative means of a ensuring a liberal arts education has its flaws. Each required core subfield offers an inadequate amount of courses each semester, often leading to crowded classes, and a disappointingly limited selection. What’s more upsetting, students seldom receive credit for taking departmental classes which would reasonably fulfill a compulsory Core subfield. The Core needs to be drastically expanded to allow for a larger amount of departmental classes to count for Core credit...
...failure of professors to venture outside their small sphere of expertise in classes is indicative of a far more wide-ranging mindset that paralyzes the intellectual endeavors on this campus. By and large, scientists hole themselves up in laboratories near Divinity Avenue, rarely see the light of day, and seldom interact with the rest of campus. Humanists pace the halls of the Barker Center wrapped in their black peacoats, entering into dialogue with their colleagues and the people on the walls but rarely with their friends in the Science Center. Each department occupies its own little satrap, an armored enclave...
...Intelligence and combat support from local Afghan forces is seldom entirely free of the axe-grinding of local warlords, and Afghan observers believe that may have played a role both in the underestimation of the enemy's strength at Shah-i-Kot and in the performance of the Afghan forces initially deployed. Question marks over the reliability of local Pashtun militias were underscored by the Afghan government's decision midway through the battle to reinforce the allied contingent with 1,000 ethnic Tajik fighters from the Northern Alliance. But despite their solid battlefield performance, the Tajiks' presence has fueled ethnic...