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...even if that candidate stands little chance of winning the election. The concept of principled voting is a lost one in American politics; drones of citizens vote for the most charismatic candidate, often without carefully considering the policy implications of their decisions. A recent study by Boaz Shamir indicates that voting preferences are closely correlated with a candidate’s perceived charisma, while Daniel Benjamin performed a behavioral analysis suggesting that “undecided voters choose based on [the charisma that the candidates exude...
...this role as cultural pluralist that spurred Harvard Divinity School stude nt Shamir Allibhai to focus his documentary “The Islamic Conscience” on the Aga Khan...
...post-9/11, post-London bombing world, we really need to examine the plurality of Islam,” said Shamir Allibhai, the documentary’s producer and a student at Harvard Divinity School. “Right now, there’s a lot of media coverage of Islam associated with terrorism and extremism. This project looks at a different side of things...
...national-unity government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the right-wing Likud bloc, and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, head of the Labor Party, is divided over nearly every major decision. Craven leaders, afraid to offend any large minority, conduct government by near paralysis. The present policy on the occupied territories rests on the hope that the civil order will eventually be restored and that the territories will return to the ''status quo,'' the endlessly uneasy but preferred state of affairs in a nation whose front door opens onto the abyss. For 21 years, Israel's leaders have been...
...region. The business of peacemaking fell into disrepair. Ultimately, last December, the Israelis' repressive hand in the occupied territories stirred the Palestinians to their current fury of rebellion. Last week what the Palestinians call the intifadeh (uprising) proceeded, and the peace process did not. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir returned home from a nine-day visit to the U.S., in which he had resisted the American proposal for an international peace conference. Shamir's supporters, including several thousand Jewish settlers from the territories who waved machine guns and danced the hora, gave him a hero's welcome in Jerusalem. They chanted...