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...incendiary speeches that trumpeted "Death to Israel!" His mosque is named for Sheik Izz al-Din al-Qassam, a martyred guerrilla leader who preached holy war against the British and Zionist invasion of Palestine in the 1930s. And al-Arian has invited scholars to his Muslim think tank who (unknown to him, he insists) turned out to be terrorist leaders--including one convicted for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing...
...Fifteen minutes later, facing an unknown future with just a pink plastic basket holding a few clothes and a bottle of shampoo, Lek starts to cry. Suddenly sensing a need to do everything properly, she runs into the bar, kneels in front of Mama San and begins to bow and chant, a good Buddhist girl in smudged makeup giving thanks for her freedom. Mama San laughs, flattered by the display of supplication. She isn't worried about finding replacements. "Their mothers or the middlemen bring them to me," she says. "There are always fresh ones...
...early 6th century grave of a King from the Kaya dynasty. Koreans nicknamed Ogura the mole because he was so obsessed with buried treasure. Says Takasaki: "(Ogura) was one of the bad guys." A few dozen pieces are rotated through the display cabinets at a time, many marked "provenance unknown." Toyonobu Tani, head curator at the National Museum, says, "We take very good care of artifacts so they can be used for academic purposes by Japanese people and by Koreans and Chinese." He denies any knowledge of requests from the Korean government or individual Koreans for the return...
Since the March 2001 report, there have been no further reports listing Winokur’s Enron holdings—leaving the effect of the collapse on Winokur unknown...
...Harvard roots are deep. However, as the only child of public school teachers and the grandson of factory workers, I must confess that I’ve always felt a bit out of place at Harvard, considering that the privileges and opportunities I have recently come to enjoy are unknown to the members of my family. Thus, when I see a growing, increasingly permanent low-wage labor force at Harvard, it is difficult to fully respect the institution. On the other hand, I am hopeful when my students—who are studying slavery and emancipation, immigration and industrialization?...