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...decade before the school, the mosque was started by moderates but then saw a power struggle in which hard-liners came out on top. Among its leaders, said the Chicago Tribune in an investigative report, "are men who have condemned Western culture ... and encouraged members to view society in stark terms: Muslims against the world." Last year a member of the mosque was indicted for allegedly funneling money, before 9/11, to Hamas, the militant Palestinian group...
Public knowledge of compensation has bothered many top managers at HMC, according to Meyer. This stands in stark contrast to private investment firms, where compensation is not disclosed...
Public knowledge of compensation has bothered many top managers at HMC, according to Meyer. This stands in stark contrast to private investment firms, where compensation is not disclosed...
...sites—namely the Cellar and the Fogg Museum, where most of the story’s main characters work—are strikingly and realistically represented in Stevens’ pen-and-ink crosshatchings. And the characters who pass through these places do behave dumbly, providing a stark narrative counterpoint to the dramatic black and white imagery...
Berger proves the consummate ingénue in her role as Miriam. She appears perfectly guileless and radiates compassion with each luminescent smile. Her naïveté offers stark counterpoint to Turner’s world-weariness. After she and Turner are discovered she remarks absently, “nothing is likely to come of it.” Turner feebly assents, but hangs his head in defeat...