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...course, hasn't been charged with anything yet. But in the emerging court of public opinion he's become a radioactive character in a drama tailor-made for a class war. Democrats are poised to gin up every kind of Congressional committee they can think of this spring to very loudly look into the matter of why, on one hand, there are a host of impoverished Enron employees out there who had their non-diversified nest eggs cracked when the company's 401(k) plan was "frozen" during the stock's worst slide - and Lay and Enron executives...
...SOMALIA: The failed state in the Horn of Africa looks tailor-made for a hangout for al-Qaeda. The country has no central government to speak of. Like Afghanistan, it's divided into fiefdoms presided over by competing clan leaders and warlords whose temporary loyalties can readily be bought. Muslim by faith, most Somalis are impoverished nomads who move between temporary huts. And Somalia has a homegrown militant group called al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (Unity of Islam) that the U.S. says is linked to al-Qaeda. The group was once host to a few training camps near the Kenyan border...
...historical” literary criticism—a gap that the History and Literature Department attempts to narrow through its interdisciplinary approach. “We felt the need for a venue where we could celebrate that distinctive Hist and Lit method, without having to tailor it to fit a purely ‘historical’ or ‘literary’ approach,” she said...
...second criterion, variation, is all too plain to see in this set of religion memes. We have innumerable belief systems tailor-made for the wide-ranging habitats of human minds. We can even point to major “speciation” events such as the Reformation where a major mutation in one strain of meme (Catholicism) leads to a flowering of variation and variety of different memetic strains (Protestantism in all its divergent glory...
...Committees in general have a far more successful history of organizing well-attended student activities than the Undergraduate Council. But it is also no secret that some House activities work better than others, and dialogue between House Committees would allow members to share ideas each individual Committee could then tailor to fit the needs and personality of the House it represents...