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...just as the nation's IT industry began to blossom. And today's thundering economy?which grew by 10.4% in the last quarter?may owe more to last year's bounteous monsoon than to enlightened business reform. But the BJP has had the wit to adapt its message of strident Hindu nationalism to a more mature one of prosperous peace with Pakistan and loud pride in India's growing economic heft...
...Hamas leader wants to go on record renouncing the organization's strident charter, especially the hard-liners who now dominate Hamas' board of directors. But last summer founder Sheik Yassin, in his elliptical way, sketched out for me how Hamas might consider a more accommodating solution. The sheik was cadaverously frail, and he had been ill for two weeks when I gained a brief audience at his house. His high-treble voice was so faint I had to lean awkwardly close to hear. But he remained the movement's ultimate authority. While he leveled boiler-plate criticism at the "racist...
...like a painting, or at least a good one, Soth's photographs have layered meanings. At first glance his picture of Sugar's, a place in Davenport, Iowa, appears to show a room where everything--the upholstered chair, the thick synthetic pile of the carpet, the strident green walls--reaches toward some misconstrued and imperfectly realized ideal of home. But the plot thickens once you know that this awkward chamber is the "green room" of a small-city brothel. (That copy of Hustler on the floor is a hint. So is the picture's title.) That room may be empty...
...only has Iraq become a resource sinkhole, it has also become a breeding ground for new terrorists. The invasion managed to piss off a lot of potentially dangerous people. It has provoked strident anti-Americanism in the Islamic world and alienated us from millions of Muslims at a time when we should be most concerned with fostering good will. That al Qaeda and other radical Islamic fundamentalists should be so invested in the fate of Saddam’s secular state demonstrates just how polarized matters have become...
...don’t expect Adams’ most strident critics to have a change of heart. But for the rest of you, try to keep things in perspective. If Mather House had to serve a third of its meals to first-years, you can bet that Hunter A. Maats ’04 would be declaring war on the Yard. What it comes down to is this—sure, Adams residents were really lucky in the housing lottery, but that does not mean that they are any less deserving of a functioning House community...