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Many first-generation Arab Americans regard intelligence work as a deeply dishonorable profession. After all, most of them fled to the U.S. from countries where intelligence agencies, or mukhabarat in Arabic, are instruments of repression, used by unpopular regimes to brutally suppress dissent. And the CIA's reputation is doubly dubious: it is tainted by association with many Arab mukhabarat, and has a history of interfering (often ham-fistedly) in Middle Eastern politics...
Motley argued that a public option will crowd out private providers, suppress competition, and “not solve the problem at an acceptable cost” to the taxpayers. Instead, Motley proposed a four-point plan which he said will stimulate competition and drive down costs...
...same time, Fuchs said that he did not think the administrators actually intended to suppress the student body’s right to freedom of speech despite the policy’s wording...
Following up her best-selling book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls with The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence, author Rachel Simmons argues that girls are taught early on to suppress their emotions and not to live as loudly as they might be inclined to. TIME talked with Simmons about how to raise girls who aren't afraid to be assertive and even a little less than perfect...
...brutally, destroyed an al-Qaeda-inspired group that had proclaimed the southern Gaza town an "Islamic emirate." After all, Hamas is listed by the U.S. and the European Union as a terrorist organization, and many in the West don't expect an avowedly Islamist political organization to forcefully suppress jihadist groups...