Word: vanguards
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...breaks out in cheeky smiles when he thinks no one is looking. Hajji Mullah Sahib is a drawn, rakish figure. Conversation stops when he enters the room. In the past, his religious scholarship lent authority to the Taliban. He and others like him from the regime's theological vanguard preached the righteousness of Mullah Omar's government, and thousands listened. They still do in the Pakistani madrasah, or religious school, where he teaches today...
...breaks out in cheeky smiles when he thinks no one is looking. Hajji Mullah Sahib is a drawn, rakish figure. Conversation stops when he enters the room. In the past, his religious scholarship lent authority to the Taliban. He and others like him from the regime's theological vanguard preached the righteousness of Mullah Omar's government, and thousands listened. They still do in the Pakistani madrasah, or religious school, where he teaches today...
McCarthy: Are you [Douthat and DeAraujo] suggesting then that if you are at the vanguard of your craft, you are a public intellectual with a wide audience and that because of that you should toe the line and stay mainstream and say exactly what Middle America would want to hear? You know, I said at the beginning of the year at a rally that we should think before we bomb and that got me put as number 32 on Lynne Cheney’s list of subversive academics. The fact of the matter is that there are lots of people...
Parents should look for a camp that teaches kids to make lasting changes in their eating and exercise habits. Lloyd Lamb attends Camp Vanguard, in Lake Wales, Fla., where he has learned to look at the labels on food for fat content and to walk after meals. He lost 40 lbs. last summer, his fifth at the camp. His parents have also learned to follow a healthier diet...
Harvard has few, if any, apologies to make regarding minority or underprivileged groups. The reforms of President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, a century ago, compellingly placed Harvard in the vanguard of education by opening the University to children of immigrant families, and that tradition is very much alive. Regarding faculty in Afro-American studies, Summers stated that Harvard “will compete vigorously to make [itself] an attractive environment.” I certainly hope none of the professors who promoted this ridiculous controversy gets rewarded with a raise...