Word: shying
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...with mulberry nectar out the passenger-side window of our Korean hatchback to a friend in one of the other cars. Our stereo screeched Shaggy's Hey Sexy Lady; theirs, insipid Lebanese pop. Tehran, with its murals of suicide bombers, Versace billboards and rickety buses adorned with portraits of Shi'ite saints, slid by in a smoggy blur. We careered past police, who didn't blink. The driver of my car frowned as I flung out my arm to grab another drink. "You can't do this properly," she said, "if you keep closing your eyes...
...office last week the investigation into Zhao Yan, a Beijing researcher for the New York Times who has been held incommunicado since September. Zhao is under investigation for both fraud and leaking state secrets, but his lawyer has not yet seen details of the police reports. In April, Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets to foreign media. (What was leaked and to whom has not been made public?those details are, by definition, state secrets themselves.) And last week, a newspaper run by the China Youth Daily called Bingdian Weekly...
...easy. Lebanon is chronically fractious, and the old civil-war rivals are already bickering over how to divvy up power with the Syrians gone. Nobody is talking yet about the most contentious issues facing the new parliament: how to disarm Hizballah, the militant Shi'ite group, and reconfigure the 1943 power-sharing agreement known as the National Pact. The task of uniting the country has fallen to Saad, a shy Georgetown University graduate who makes no secret that he would rather be scuba diving or riding his Harley. "Watch me," he told TIME in a recent interview at the wood...
...unruliness is being fueled by militant religious political groups, many of which oppose secular education and what they perceive as Western cultural influences. In March, extremist Shi'ite followers of the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr beat up several hundred engineering students in the southern city of Basra. Their offense: attending a picnic at which both sexes were present. Female students have been harassed for "inappropriate" clothing; a majority now wear the hijab, or head scarf, to school-a sharp contrast to the prewar period when Islamic dress was rarely seen on campus. "We see it as our duty...
...religious tensions-and mirror the divisions already apparent outside the university walls. Sectarian groups were barred from running for student-union elections earlier this year, but many simply set up parallel "committees" that carry greater clout than the elected unions. At Mustansiriya University, there are two "committees" representing Shi'ites-radical cleric al-Sadr is particularly popular-and a third is backed by Sunni students. All three routinely celebrate religious events on campus, plaster walls with posters depicting their respective religious leaders and conduct campaigns urging students to adopt "Islamic" clothing and behavior. "It's a grave problem," says Sami...