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...tiny, more invasive strain of paparazzo will be developed, resulting in unprecedented access to even the most publicity-shy stars...
...That message is being broadcast from thousands of new mosques and Islamic schools, or pesantren, now proliferating across the 17,000-island archipelago. Many are funded by Middle Eastern groups that see Indonesia as fertile ground for spiritual purification. Clerics at these religious institutions preach the Salafi strain of Islam, which advocates a return to the religion as practiced in the era of the Prophet Muhammad. (Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia's strict form of the faith, is considered an offshoot of Salafi Islam.) By contrast, most Indonesians, like other Southeast Asian Muslims, had for centuries practiced a far less orthodox faith...
...high turnout and rapt silence during the film, “Rx For Survival: A Global Health Challenge.” Narrated by Brad Pitt, the documentary chronicles health challenges from around the world. From clips of a girl named Raquel in Peru, who lives with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis and will not kiss her son for fear of infecting him, to Mechai in Thailand, who single-handedly distributes condoms in brothels across the country to slow the progression of AIDS, making condom balloons along the way. The film solicited both tears and laughter from the audience...
...revamped hotline, and that eventually it will become an official, College and Bok Center-sanctioned feedback mechanism. We are optimistic that the hotline, as it evolves, will prove helpful both to students and to TFs. But in crafting this system, the UC must make sure that it does not strain the already complex, and often quite fraught relationships between students...
...paradigm of student-faculty relations would be an egregious mistake. The expansion of the research university overseen by former President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, may have furthered the descent of the school’s more intimate collegiate atmosphere, but the British Model showed signs of strain as early as the 18th century, when undergraduates and tutors ended their chummy camaraderie (or, perhaps, forced co-habitation) and lived increasingly apart and at odds...