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...mainstream media. Unlike many other non-Muslim commentators, Bobby Ghosh correctly realizes that the root of the fighting in Iraq (and in other parts of the Islamic world) is not religion but politics. The warring parties cloak themselves in religious garb and quote suras from the Koran to suit their agendas, but at the end of the day their objective is not religious legitimacy but political supremacy. It is amazing how many Western writers miss that point - and all the more to Ghosh's credit that he grasps it. Akbar Rehman, LOS ANGELES...
Even as a heavily recruited shortstop out of Solana Beach, Calif., Matt Vance knew that baseball at the college level would require adjustments to his game. But when he prepared to suit up for his first action in a Harvard uniform, he realized that playing for the Crimson would be even more of a change than he had anticipated...
...gained.To be fair, the criteria for targeted divestment outlined by HDAG would in practice limit divestment to particularly egregious oil companies operating in Sudan. There are several more such oil companies from which other universities including Princeton, Yale, and the University of California have divested. Harvard should follow suit, taking into account its indirect as well as direct holdings, without adopting a policy rule...
Sparkles in their eyes, their long hair graying now, bearded men in jeans scan the crowd for familiar faces. In something resembling a crossover between a Woodstock reunion and an academic conference, several hundred of them - interspersed by the rare business suit - gathered at a church in downtown Prague to celebrate an act of courage they jointly undertook 30 years ago. In 1977, a decade after Soviet tanks had crushed the last flowering of free expression on their city's streets, these men and women signed Charter 77, a human-rights declaration demanding freedoms suppressed by the totalitarian communist regime...
...Asim, 23, a computer science student watching a cricket match in a cheap kebab restaurant in Islamabad, agrees. "The people are angry. The law should be equal for each," he says. "You can't just make laws to suit you as you go along. This [Chaudhry's suspension] is not good for our country...