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...bans, aversion to religious practices in schools in Turkey has been motivated not out of any xenophobic hatred of immigrants, but rather, out of a profoundly liberal desire to protect secularism, democracy, and the preservation of women’s rights and equality. Certainly, any state should exercise the utmost restraint before curtailing the freedoms of its people in any way. But the state must also protect the rights of its individual members, especially those most disenfranchised by society. While a headscarf may be a harmless practice by itself, the broader context of Islam’s influence on Turkish...
...commercialism. It was in Dante’s Purgatory that the play became overtly politically charged. In Hell, a series of perplexing, abstract torture sequences involving puppets and the reading of an interrogation log served to honor the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay. While the material addressed was of the utmost gravity, these scenes were slow-paced and excruciatingly drawn-out. What should have been moving was soporific. And for all its intentional weirdness, “The Divine Reality Comedy” still managed to be predictable.The Bread and Puppet Theater brought with them a complementary political art exhibition, installed...
...professor Alan M. Dershowitz challenged Matory after his television appearance and Matory, ever an exemplar of the openness he so venerates, responded with the utmost maturity and aplomb. Dershowitz has said that when he asked Matory to prove that Summers had ever actually denied the rights of Palestinians, Matory flew into a rage, chastising Dershowitz for being an incompetent professor, unfit for teaching at a university like Harvard. This, surely, is the sort of “civil dialogue” that the Faculty ought to encourage. I wonder if the UC is looking for a new faculty advisor...
...meantime, Huckabee is standing by the Copelands. In an e-mail message to TIME, Huckabee maintained, "Kenneth and Gloria Copeland are about the most gracious, authentic, and humble people I know and I consider them dear friends. They have brought hope to millions and have operated with the utmost integrity as far as I know. I have found them to be as warm and genuine in their private moments as they are in their public moments...
...Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign drew his attention to inequities of resources in poorer regions of the US that are no different from those abroad. “That was a very powerful experience for me. It reinforced my opinion that public service is of the utmost importance,” says Tannenwald. “I had a lot of opportunities to talk to people from all over the country, to see how concrete some of the problems we face are.” Teach for America (TFA) is another popular route to brain gain for many...