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...individual institutions and organizations. So while one school might prohibit teachers from wearing the niqab in class, another might not, giving Muslim teachers a choice of where to work. In return, women who cover would have to accept that in certain situations - at passport control, say - security concerns trump personal beliefs and they would be required to show their faces. In practice, this balance between policy and piety isn't uncommon. All over Europe, governments and religious minorities are meeting in the middle. Under English law, Jewish religious courts have the power to settle noncriminal cases like divorce settlements...
...goals: the education of students, the productivity of faculty, the contribution of research to the broader society. Other apparent goals—raising huge sums of money, having successful athletic teams, and moving up in the U.S. News and World Report rankings—should never be allowed to trump the fundamental educational mission...
...sure their fans would enjoy them even more if they won a championship or two or even broke UCLA’s record of 88 straight wins. And it wouldn’t hurt if they got an education in the process. Economic logic might trump my own, but at least my thinking would make for good sport (and sports stories). In this era when much of college athletics has become more spectacle than sport, it’s nice to be confident that I’ll be able to watch the next crop of spectacular Harvard athletes hone...
...countries and the global oil companies, the benefits are so compelling that they trump politics and old ethnic rivalries. The Caspian's oil and natural gas reserves, which some estimates have put as large as 200 billion bbl. (vs. 260 billion in Saudi Arabia), could deliver economic independence to the South Caucasus region and energy independence to the West. "This is about diversifying energy supplies," says Michael Townshend, a BP executive who ran the project in Baku until last year. "It is not from the Middle East and it is not from Russia...
...would have forgiven her, as Trump did. And steered her right. I don't know that I would have packed her off to rehab just yet, as Trump...