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...thing I'm not at all sure would have happened without them is the racial split. American pop music has always been an interaction between black and white musicians - and it's often oversimplified into black musicians creating and white musicians stealing. But black musicians always kept up with what the white musicians were doing, just the way that white musicians tried to keep up with what the black musicians were doing. By 1963, the pop charts really were intensely integrated. Billboard magazine stopped having a separate pop and R&B chart because the two charts were virtually identical...
Over the centuries, the Church tried to split the difference, prohibiting marriage after ordination and encouraging married priests to abstain from sex with their wives after they had joined the priesthood. (The Eastern Orthodox CHurch continues to allow married men to be ordained as priests.) But it wasn't until the Second Lateran Council in 1139 that a firm church law allowing ordination only of unmarried men was adopted. Journalist and former priest James Carroll contends in Practicing Catholic that the reasons for this celibacy requirement were not purely theological. "Celibacy had been imposed on priests mainly for the most...
...Sharif and Aweys agreed that all foreign troops must leave Somalia and supported a national resistance against them. But after Ethiopian troops pulled out in 2008, the two split. In January, Sharif formed a government that espouses Shari'a law but also seeks dialogue with the West. Aweys formed the more militant Hizbul Islam, which is seemingly opposed to any contact with the West. He also allies himself with al-Shabaab, originally the ICU's militia, which today, while publicly denying links to al-Qaeda, has managed to attract hundreds of foreign jihadis to its ranks. (See pictures of Osama...
...regulation since the 1930s. But don't let this make you think the Obama reforms even approach in significance and forcefulness the changes made back then. In the early days of the Roosevelt Administration, Congress set up the Securities and Exchange Commission and charged it with strictly regulating markets, split banks from investment banks with the Glass-Steagall Act, created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., and enacted all manner of other game-changing financial reforms. It's not just that the Obama reforms are less ambitious than those of the Great Depression. They're also inspired by a very different...
...compared to semiconductors. While SEAS currently covers only $500,000 of CNS’ $6.1 million budget, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences pays for $3.1 million, with user fees and other revenue making up the difference, according to Bloxham. Murray said that center usage appears to be split evenly among SEAS and FAS professors, so she has already offered to cover a larger percentage of the budget in coming years. She said that it would be fair for SEAS to cover at least as much as FAS or even more. The recession has hit SEAS less hard than...