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...Americans have ventured. Inside, a group of Arab sheiks has gathered to discuss the jihad they and their followers are waging against the U.S. The men wear white robes and long beards and greet each other solemnly. They are all Iraqi, but their beliefs are those of the strict Wahhabi strain of Islam repressed under Saddam Hussein. Unlike most Iraqi sitting rooms, this one has no pictures adorning its walls or a television or radio nestled in a corner. Such luxuries are forbidden, just as they were under the Taliban in Afghanistan. At the back of the room...
...stripped of her all-around gold at the Olympics in Sydney after testing positive for pseudoephedrine. Over the next four years, the national team had to be rebuilt twice due to untimely departures of top talent. Belu had to fend off accusations in the Romanian press that the strict regime at Deva tipped over into exploitation and abuse of his athletes. Belu dismisses the charges by saying that training is "200% voluntary" and that he keeps "the door open for anyone who wants to leave." And even Comaneci's iconic status was challenged in a recent book by Dick Pound...
...national payroll to pen books about himself and who has personally written (according to Pyongyang) a nonfiction work on film and even some poetry. Kim Il Sung, the Dear Leader's father, once dubbed writers "engineers of the human soul"?but he and his son have always had strict control over the project specs...
...trial, which is expected to last six months, has attracted plenty of press attention but surprisingly little O.J.-style circus atmosphere. Not only has Judge Alfred Delucchi placed a strict gag order on all participants, but the trial is taking place in Redwood City, Calif.--a town of Silicon Valley commuters with little interest in a murder case from almost 100 miles away. One edition of the local paper last week gave the Peterson trial less play than a story about a stray cat that had tied up traffic on Route...
...horizons of both faculty and students” and “introduce bodies of knowledge, concepts and major texts.” For these classes to be effective, they must emphasize the world’s most essential texts and ideas—though we oppose a strict “Great Books” curriculum—and highlight the best Harvard has to offer, both with professors and teaching fellows (TFs). In any case, the HCCR needs to be clearer in the coming month about what it expects this new class of courses to look like...