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Every year, it's the same old story. Late at night, on the eve of shopping period, Harvard students sequester themselves in their rooms to ponder the answer to a weighty question: which four courses truly warrant the expense of my considerable intellectual capital...
...consensus of literary critics, Nasrin, an outspoken feminist and atheist, is no Salman Rushdie. Her rather slapdash stories have gained notice mainly as screeds against the ill treatment of women. What she shares with the author of The Satanic Verses, a novel that earned an Iranian death warrant against Rushdie 5 1/2 years ago, is the misfortune of becoming a lightning rod for the passions of Islamic zealots. Five days before her surprise appearance in court to face charges of making inflammatory statements, a crowd of 100,000 demonstrators gathered outside the Parliament building in Dhaka...
Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin briefly emerged from two months in hiding that began when the government issued a warrant for her arrest following protests by Muslim fundamentalists who had placed a $5,000 bounty on her head. Nasrin, they claim, recommended that the Koran be "revised thoroughly," a statement she denies making. The heavily guarded feminist appeared in a court in Dhaka, the capital, to face charges that she outraged Muslims by defaming their faith. After she was freed on $250 bail and quickly returned to seclusion, thousands of demonstrators marched through Dhaka's streets shouting "Death to Taslima Nasrin...
...meant people like Hill. A native Mississippian with three children, the clean-cut, ever smiling 40-year-old was an ordained minister and regarded as an ideal neighbor. Yet his father had signed a warrant against him for assault when he was 17, and an ex-pastor confides that two churches had expelled him in 1992 for preaching the idea that came to consume him: that to kill an abortion provider was justifiable homicide. With Gunn's death, however, Hill found a more receptive audience: talk- and news-show hosts. Appearing first on Donahue, then on Nightline and Sonya Live...
Media magnate and new Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi edged closer to being implicated in a corruption scandal when prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for his brother. Paolo Berlusconi, who ran several of his sibling's companies, has been charged with bribing financial regulators. He's since vanished, with police now negotiating with his attorney for his surrender. This isn't the first embarrassment for the new government of Prime Minister Berlusconi, who himself has been trying to soften his party's ultranationalist edges. In a country plagued by political and financial scandal, will this latest news tarnish the Teflon...