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...court and the religiously tolerant culture of Mughal Delhi exacerbated divisions between Hindus and Muslims and fueled the rise of Islamic fundamentalism on the subcontinent. Without Zafar, Dalrymple writes, "it would be almost impossible to imagine that Hindu sepoys could ever have rallied to the Red Fort and the standard of a Muslim leader, joining with their Muslim brothers in an attempt to revive the Mughal Empire." By invoking the memory of the last Emperor, Dalrymple reminds Indians of a time when such religious harmony was easy to come...
...looks like. Flexible enough that you don't need to worry about dropping it, firm enough to hold in one hand and roughly the area of a sheet of paper, the reader could be built to hold, say, a gigabyte of data. That's space enough for 1,000 standard-length books - or the text of the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica three times over, with room to spare for the Harry Potter series...
...just as Dean went from pragmatic, centrist governor to liberal hero in 2003 by taking a strong anti-war stand and often criticizing Democrats in Washington for not standing up to President Bush, Edwards has transformed himself from an adherent of Bill Clinton's moderate style to the progressive standard bearer, pushing his opponents in the 2008 presidential campaign to the left...
...Berlin's Deutsche Oper and even New York City's Met struggle to fill seats. The reasons for opera's slow decline are legion. Classical music critic and consultant Greg Sandow points to governments' dwindling support of the arts, a paucity of singers with the ability to perform the standard repertoire, and above all, audiences that look elsewhere for entertainment...
...followed.“The ad hoc committee [formed after Sherley’s first complaint] concluded that the process that led to the decision not to advance Professor Sherley’s case for tenure was fair and did not differ in any significant way from the standard process used in tenure reviews at MIT,” MIT’s press office said in a statement concerning Sherley’s tenure case.Sherley contends that racism was a factor in not only his tenure decision, but also his treatment at MIT since he arrived...