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...help you do so. The ancient walls of the Bodleian Library house a less than inspiring collection. Last year, some departmental libraries had to cancel their LexisNexis subscriptions due to budget shortfalls. And if you have visions of debates with famous Nobel Prize winners, expect instead to be taught in a lecture hall by an apathetic post...
...time for the angst of the wider Islamic world. Those who can look past the daily horrors see an even more frightening future, in which their children carry today's hatreds into the next generation. With thousands being killed on either side, the nationalist, secular slogans that were long taught in Iraq's schools have lost much of their meaning. And children do not get too many lessons in secularism at home. "When we were kids, my parents taught us that Shi'ites had the wrong idea about Islam but were just misguided, not bad people," says Ayesha Ubaid...
...private jet. I went up for it years ago. I'm a friend of the new James Bond, Daniel Craig. I played his dad in a play in London. All his talent, I taught him. He should be giving me some money. He's the best Bond ever. He looks like he really could kill you. In real life he's a softie...
...like [‘Secrecy’] to be part of a discussion that is piecemeal,” Galison said, “something that precipitates asking questions.” The filmmakers said they shaped the idea for “Secrecy” in their jointly-taught class, History of Science 152, “Filming Science,” over the past three years. The class interactively juxtaposes film and text to explore science. “While text handles exposition decisively in a way film doesn’t, film is a kind of lens...
...parents' generation, where social classes were impermeable, people mostly married within their religious and financial caste, and hejab was an inherited, fixed custom within specific groups. Back then, the daughters of veiled women learned to veil, the daughters of secular women learned to go bare-headed, and both were taught to regard the other, respectively, as backward or immoral. Such attitudes, as you might imagine, were not conducive to peaceful coexistence in a country that is composed of religious traditionalists, Westernized secularists, and everything in between. That these days a woman chooses her life partner from a broader range...