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...character is Rustem Bey, the powerful community leader whose wife is unfaithful and, once saved from stoning, condemned to prostitution. Years later Bey visits his now-diseased wife in a brothel: "He ? put his hands on her head, as if in benediction," and in the simple gesture lies forgiveness, shame, reconciliation and, still, love. It's fleetingly moving, but a fragmented subplot in a book of subplots. Perhaps most unwelcome is the book's heavy-handed preachiness. Rustem Bey darkly announces: "If a war can be holy, then God cannot." What's unmistakable is the lesson for today. Muslims...
...think it’s a shame that the new honors caps may cause some students who write theses to graduate without honors,” she wrote in an e-mail. “Writing a senior thesis is a huge undertaking, and I think that thesis writers deserve recognition of some sort, despite the University’s efforts to reduce grade inflation...
...Shame of Abu Ghraib Your report on the psychological and physical mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib by U.S. soldiers came as a great shock and exploded the myth that we live in a civilized world [May 17]. If the U.S. attacked Iraq to rescue its people from the cruelty of their dictator, then what kind of example has been set by those abusive American soldiers? Today the whole world is disgusted by their acts. There is a lot of talk about human rights nowadays. Does such a thing exist? Abu Ghraib will haunt the world for years to come...
People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country. Plus I like being a foreigner. It keeps me on my toes...
...Shame of Abu Ghraib...