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...last month say they found pages from a neighborhood housing log; among the papers was a list of 65 houses where Shi'ite families have replaced Sunni families. On other pages were drafts of threat letters clearly intended for delivery to Sunni homes. The log included a roster of "virtuous families" in the Washash area with house numbers written next to their names so the militia relocation agents could keep track of people deemed fit to stay...
...Then she checked out her husband's cell-phone records. Hundreds of calls had been made to a mysterious number, sometimes just minutes after Chen left for work or took her daughter out to play. Like most Chinese women, Chen had abided by Confucian tradition, which advises that a virtuous wife should serve her husband like God, no matter what. But Confucius lived centuries ago, and Chen, 42, is a telecommunications executive with a good salary. "I want to get divorced," she says. "That's the only way my life will have hope again." (Chen's name has been changed...
...almost no IOP students will join—and quietly hunting down terrorists doesn’t have the emotional appeal of bearing any burden or fighting any foe. But idealism and Kennedy nostalgia will not rescue politics from the likes of Mark Foley. If we cannot make politics virtuous, we can at least make it effective, and to that end, a generation of hard-headed realists may be just what the doctor ordered.Joshua Patashnik ’07 is a government concentrator in Adams House. He is the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Political Review...
...misdeeds. Luo Jiaguang, a senior municipal party official, organized the tour, the report said, quoting him as saying, "The 19 men now have more power than at any other time in their lives. The tour for their spouses serves as a warning to the women to be 'virtuous helpers' and not bad instigators." In more than 80% of corruption cases, the report notes, wives and other relatives of the corrupt officials are involved in the crimes...
...kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a class--which in turn raised the quality of the whole experience on campus and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the next wave of applicants. "Just because you haven't heard of a college doesn't mean it's no good," argues Marilee Jones, the admissions dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an outspoken advocate of the idea that parents need to lighten up. "Just as you've changed and grown since college...