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...emulation literally. Among the examples Bakr cites is al-Zarqawi's tendency, modeled on the Prophet's, to "do everything from right to left: he puts on his right shoe first, washes his right hand first after a meal, talks to people sitting on his right." (Al-Zarqawi's status as a wanted man forces him to make some exceptions in his mimicking of Muhammad. While most of the literalist schools of Islam require that Muslims follow the Prophet's example and keep full beards, al-Zarqawi, who frequently alters his appearance to throw off his pursuers, sometimes shaves...
...emir wants to become a sheik," or religious leader, says the commander of an Iraqi insurgent group. "Since he was always quite religious, it is natural for him to grow in that direction." He cites Osama bin Laden as an example of another mujahid who rose gradually to the status of sheik...
...Provoking Whom? I question the premise of your report on Taiwan's politics, "Combat Fatigue" [April 3]. It is unfair to say that President Chen Shui-bian is taking an overly provocative stance toward China and that the U.S. has been irritated by Chen's compulsion to upset the status quo. The fact is, China has missiles aimed at Taiwan, and last year it passed an anti-secession law aimed at preventing Taiwanese independence. So which side is shaking up the status quo? Harn Ming-Rong Kaohsiung, Taiwan...
...study break. Three months later, it made the opposite decision in considering another AACF application. Why the inconsistency? I don’t have the answer, and I don’t think the UC’s leaders do, either. But while no one wants to see the status quo survive, the UC has proven itself unable to decide how to fix the problem...
...more selective the college, the lower will be the ratio of females to males even if admissions were on a gender-blind basis,” said Goldin. The reason for this is that the most dominant female-to-male ratios occur among lower socioeconomic status families, while the ratio among wealthier families is more balanced. Katz said that “since Harvard tends to draw from the higher part of the [socioeconomic status] and high school performance distribution [this] would mean even with gender-blind admissions policies that Harvard would tend to have a lower female share than...