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...live according to the teachings of Islam, and how angry she was that her government did not support her. Students and teachers from both the men's and women's schools have embarked on an antivice campaign in the capital, shutting down video and music shops for promoting un-Islamic behavior. Twice now, the female students have abducted alleged prostitutes, saying that if the government doesn't cleanse the capital of sin, they will. "A man goes to medical school and becomes a doctor," says Aman. "We go to a madrasah, so we must practice Islam. But the government...
...authorities: they have occupied a nearby children's library to protest government plans to raze illegal mosques built on state-owned land; set up their own Shari'a court; and have even kidnapped policemen and terrorized neighboring areas with a Taliban-like vigilante campaign against anything they consider un-Islamic. On July 3, that defiance erupted into a bloody clash between security forces and students when the authorities tried to cordon off the madrasah complex as part of a plan to shut it down. The next day, a shoot-on-sight curfew was in force around the area, and tensions...
Working under him at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as the Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN will be the newly ennobled Lord Malloch Brown, better known on the world stage as former U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown. Well-connected in Washington, Malloch Brown also ruffled some American feathers. Last year John Bolton, then U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., said Malloch Brown was the author of "of the worst mistake by a senior U.N. official that I have seen." That comment followed a speech by Malloch Brown in which he criticized the U.S. government for permitting...
...same time, new products add un-ING-like complexity. When it rolled out checking in March, the bank introduced a system for doing nearly all transactions online; handing out checkbooks was deemed too cumbersome. But there was no easy solution for customers who had to have paper checks for the landlord or the babysitter. So ING Direct now prints and mails some 25,000 paper checks a month on customers' behalf--no charge for the stamp. Kuhlmann battled his staff for weeks over the issue, insisting that no matter how transparent, ING Direct wouldn't charge...
...earned a consensus of critical esteem, and has been picked up for distribution around the world (including the U.S.). It was also a tribute to a country whose cinema industry is on the rise; another Romanian effort, Cristian Nemescu's California Dreamin', yesterday won the main prize for the Un Certain Regard sidebar selection...