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...Islam," says Kaliammal, showing off a wall in her apartment dedicated to her husband's mountaineering achievements for the glory of the Malaysian nation. "He was always a Hindu and drank alcohol and ate pork right up to the time he died." His final resting place, though, will depend upon what the court decides-yet one more challenge for a country caught between mosque and state...
...Bulukumba's Padang village, divine mandate goes beyond the four bylaws. Over the past year, village chief Andi Rukman Abdul Jabbar, whose office door bears a sign barring women without headscarves from entering, has taken it upon himself to implement caning as punishment for adultery, gambling and drinking. (Similar penalties exist in the Sumatran province of Aceh, population 4 million, where legislators are now considering hand amputation in cases of theft.) So far, three people have been caned in Padang, while another was kicked out of the village for stealing. "In 2005, we used to have an incidence of theft...
...Maybe not so great. On Feb. 15, British magazine Gramophone asserted that at least some of Hatto's recordings were copies of other performers' work. A critic came upon the alleged fraud when he loaded a Hatto CD onto his computer and an online database automatically identified it as a set by Hungarian Laszlo Simon. An independent expert testing Hatto's catalog claims that the sound-wave patterns on at least five of her CDs are identical to earlier recordings. One online retailer has stopped selling Hatto's music, and the British Phonographic Industry has begun an investigation...
Klein was reasonable but left readers wondering what it means to support the troops. He failed to hold his audience accountable, to demand that a choice be made and acted upon. Where was the call to action? Where was the directive to take the President and his regime to account publicly, loudly, immediately...
...fishbowl, transforming it from a de facto dance studio, unused by Currierites, into a center of House life, to constantly making themselves available to their students, Badaracco and O’Brien made Currier not only a welcoming place to spend three years, but an immensely desirable one. Upon being quadded on blocking day, those freshmen who saw Currier’s tree on their blocking cards could take solace in knowing that they had gained entrance to one of the most unique and special places at Harvard...