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...agreement that Harvard and the city struck in October represented an attempt to forge a better working relationship after decades of tense battles between the University and Riverside residents...
That attitude seemed only to feed the commission's growing appetite for reform. "We've been struck," said Lehman last week, "by a real difference between our interaction with the FBI and our interaction with the agency. The bureau ... has fundamentally admitted they're an agency that is deeply dysfunctional and broken ... whereas the attitude we kind of get from the CIA is ... 'Hey, you know, we're the CIA,' ... kind of a smugness and arrogance toward deep reform...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict was rocked by literal and metaphorical explosions last week. On Saturday night an Israeli missile struck a car carrying Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the vitriolic leader in Gaza of the militant Palestinian group Hamas. Rantisi, a pediatrician who helped found the group in the 1980s, was killed along with a bodyguard and one other companion...
...spoke of the injustice of laws banning the Muslim head scarf in public buildings, but has left those laws intact. And Erdogan has vigorously pursued ties with the West, campaigning to get his country admitted to the European Union and for a deal to reunite Cyprus. When terrorists struck Istanbul in November, he said the culprits would account for their acts in "both worlds." Western leaders have been scouring the Muslim world for moderate politicians who see their future in democracy and pluralism. Erdogan may be the best find yet. --By Andrew Purvis
Iyengar is 85 now, and he still teaches at the institute in Pune, India, that he founded in 1973. He taught his first class in 1936, but it wasn't until he struck up a lifelong friendship with violinist Yehudi Menuhin that Iyengar brought his teachings to the West. His 1966 book Light on Yoga--with 300 pages of instruction and photographs of postures, or asanas--introduced yoga to people around the globe. Aficionados founded Iyengar groups in the U.S. as early as 1974 and slowly fed what has become mainstream Western acceptance of a 3,000-year-old Indian...