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...contrast, most Indonesians, like other Southeast Asian Muslims, had for centuries practiced a far less orthodox faith, incorporating the Hindu, Buddhist and animist traditions that had flourished before Islam arrived in the archipelago in the 12th century. Some 88% of Indonesia's 245 million citizens are Muslim, and the vast majority of those would label themselves as moderate. Indeed, the country was founded in 1945 as a secular state protecting the rights of the nation's non-Muslims, now 30 million strong. But as Indonesia's wealth gap widens-roughly 40 million citizens now live below the poverty line-conservative...
...Havahd Yahd,” a Harvard scholar will park his Prius in a metered spot on Mount Auburn Street. Beantown’s infamously “r”-averse brogue is conspicuously absent here on campus. This slight difference in inflection underscores a vast cultural schism between those affiliated with Harvard and Boston’s locals—a divide that dampens town-gown relations and could hamper the University’s plans to expand into Allston...
...nickname bayani. As we walked toward the Philippines consulate, they explained to me that it translates as heroine, which is what most of these women are to the family and friends they've left behind. Plagued by poverty and unemployment, the Philippines has exported about 8 million workers, the vast majority of whom are women. In the first half of last year, these mothers, sisters and daughters sent home more than $8 billion in remittances, roughly 10% of the country's GDP. That dollar figure is expected to double by 2010 and doesn't include probably another couple billion...
...Catrall sighting, we are again overrun with overzealous reporters and show attendees. We secure our passes and prepare to enter “The Tent” for the BCBG Max Azria show. No more small venues: this is the big top, reserved for the most prominent designers. Vast, shadowy, and crammed with people, the atmosphere in “The Tent” resembles that of a circus or Roman Colosseum lion show. Spectators peer down at the extra-long runway. The photographers at the head of the show are so crowded that their faces are entirely hidden behind...
...family histories, to attempt to imagine what ancestors’ worlds and experiences might have been like and what they might have to do with one’s own life.The same has apparently happened to Alice Munro. Munro, whose collections of intimate, thoughtful short stories have earned her vast acclaim, explains in the introduction to her newest—and potentially last—collection, “The View From Castle Rock,” that someone in every generation of her family has had a habit of writing long, detailed letters or journals. Moved by these records...