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This is not, however, an endorsement of the opposite trend: wearing normal clothing to costume parties. If you can go to a Goldman interview in the same outfit you wear to a costume party, then you should know that you are a buzzkill and nobody likes...
...into producing the elaborate volume. “It’s a wonderful book; he’s gotten just about everything in there for the history of Harvard Square.” Those who have witnessed the changes to the Square said they have noticed an obvious trend. “I think it’s gone from being a little grungier and funkier to being a little more upscale,” said Lotman. Likewise, Robert S. Manning, a Boston resident for the past ten years, says he felt “a little...
...could easily describe health-care costs. This year, national health spending will account for over 17 percent of GDP, outpacing all other countries. It has grown twice as fast as GDP since 1975 and shows no signs of letting up. Reversing this unsustainable trend is critical to any health-care plan, since maintaining universal coverage and insurance reform requires lowering costs in the long...
...bombings in Bali raised fears among counterterrorism experts that Indonesia's 12,000 pesantran were potential breeding grounds for radicalism. And while suicide bombers and radicals have been traced to a few schools notorious for their extremist teachings, others have been incubators for a more benign trend in the world's most populous Muslim nation: the development of feminist readings of the Quran and Islamic traditions. Indonesia's two largest Muslim political parties - the Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah - have intricate campaigns promoting women's rights. Indonesian feminists, male and female alike, have worked with progressive pesantran to develop women-friendly...
...traditional agricultural culture often had men and women working together in the fields , in contrast, say, to the segregated tribal customs of Arabia. It's not that these ideas don't find resistence: There's a strong tradition of male authority in Indonesia, as well as a more recent trend towards fundamentalism, so feminists have to be careful to pick kyais who will be open to their teachings. Jakarta-based feminist activist Lies Marcoes-Natsir says much of her work is protecting indigenous Indonesian Islamic culture from the spread of stricter, Saudi-style Wahhabi interpretations of Islam. "The good thing...