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...Hatred is a powerful motivator. Until the clerics made common cause against America, the six hard-line party leaders were rivals. They stormed each other's mosques and split hairs over ideological disputes dating back to Islam's early days. Their differences were stark: some worship at the tombs of local Sufi saints; others dismiss that practice as blasphemy. Most of the parties want their women veiled from head to toe, although more liberal groups argue that it ought to be the woman's choice. The personalities of the parties' leaders have also clashed. Qazi Hussain Ahmed from the Jamaat...
Nepal's 12-year-old democracy is on the ropes. A string of corrupt governments has failed to tackle the country's poverty, illiteracy and unemployment. A brutal Maoist rebellion has claimed 5,000 lives, including 3,000 since last November. And on Friday the elected government got a stark vote of no confidence: the country's constitutional monarch King Gyanendra?who took the throne 16 months ago after the Crown Prince massacred most of the royal family?went on national TV to say he was firing 'incompetent' Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, postponing next month's parliamentary elections...
Harvard’s mistake stood in stark contrast to the error-free, opportunistic play it exhibited for most of the game. Lehigh fumbled twice inside its own 20-yard line, and both times the Crimson made...
...Spain, I went out at night with 3 different age groups of young people—18, 20, and 24—and I never once saw a person sick or passed out from drinking. This is in stark contrast to a night at an American university, where heavy drinking is commonplace...
...this stands in stark contrast to the furor generated in the last few weeks by those who seek to provide for an unbiased, respectful debate on the conflict in the Middle East. Two weeks ago, University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments about acts that are “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent” were met by some with the kind of outrage that might greet a Supreme Court which voted to nullify the First Amendment...