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...really think [the increased enrollment] has to do with Sept. 11 and all the turmoil in the Middle East,” she says. “That definitely kicked me over the edge...
...hint at? First of all, it gave witness that a figure beloved by Jews and Christians has a Muslim constituency, suggesting a connection between Islam and the West that might surprise most Americans in this tense season. But second, it acknowledged that despite this apparent bond, there is still turmoil among the sons of Abraham...
While D’Alessandro’s consolidation plan will focus on elementary schools, CRLS also faces its own organizational turmoil this year. After the high school was restructured two years ago, the principal who engineered the new program quit. This summer the district named one of its own administrators, Sybil Knight, to the helm...
...territory stretching from Myanmar (formerly Burma) to eastern Indonesia, radical Islam was on the rise, with militants occupying swaths of the region's steamy jungle terrain. In Indonesia the fall of the dictator Suharto in 1998 left the world's most populous Islamic country in a state of turmoil and turned it into a fertile breeding ground for potential al-Qaeda terrorists. Al-Faruq married Mira, the daughter of a former Islamic activist, and linked up with an Indonesian businessman named Agus Dwikarna, who was active in the Indonesian Mujahedin Council (MMI). A purportedly nonviolent political organization...
After an overhaul of the IOP student leadership imposed two years ago ushered in a year of turmoil followed by a year of adjustment, some see the IOP’s leadership quietly moving away from the high-powered image often associated with its core membership...