Word: sphere
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...audience's impatience with the critique format is emblematic of a generational yearning for greater freedom of expression in the cultural sphere. Music's status is contested in Islam, with some jurisprudents arguing that it is halal, permissible, and others insisting that it is haraam, forbidden. Following Iran's 1979 revolution, the new Islamic Republic at first banned all music. Although most classical and traditional music was soon allowed again, it wasn't until moderate President Khatami's term in 1997 that regulations loosened up sufficiently to allow Iranian rock band to spring up in garages across Tehran. Today, even...
...nonsense former Mossad agent who eschews small talk, avoids the Bar Mitzvah circuit most Israeli politicians use to rack up favors and lives quietly in a modest Tel Aviv home with her husband and two sons. And she has strong views on probity in the public sphere. "I resent the idea that corruption comes with the political system," she tells Time in her glass-and-wood-paneled Jerusalem office. "It doesn...
...younger scholars into doing empirical research on economic policy in a way that can inform economic policy. I’ve also enjoyed writing a monthly column for the Financial Times that gives me a way to raise arguments and try to open up debate in the public-policy sphere because the columns are reprinted all over the world in a variety of different languages. It gives me a very nice forum to reach people...
...come what may in Washington, last week's decision in California made history by putting the history of gay Americans' struggle for civil rights in the same sphere as earlier American struggles by women, African-Americans, Jews and others who have faced discrimination. That remains the case - and the law in California - no matter what Golden State voters decide in the fall...
...discount majority sentiment in order to rectify the situation. While some religious organizations voiced outrage following the announcement, the Court’s decision in no way infringes on private congregations, since they remain free to perform and recognize only those unions they deem legitimate. The public sphere cannot and should not base its marriage legislation on the concerns of specific religious congregations, so long as legislation does not require these faiths to act against their principles. Since any church, temple or mosque can continue to marry only a man and a woman without breaking the law, religious objections should...