Word: writs
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Homework is usually controversial only for the students who have to do it. But this summer the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which customarily assigns a book to its incoming freshmen, chose Approaching the Qur'an, a set of heavily annotated excerpts from the Muslim Holy Writ. Chancellor James Moeser reportedly asked his trustees, "What could be more timely?" And what could be more predictable than the brouhaha that followed: the rumbling overture on Christian websites; the brassy solo by Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, who compared the assignment to having students read Hitler's Mein Kampf...
PAKTIKA One of a long line of Pashtun tribal chiefs who have regarded Kabul's writ with indifference, PACHA KHAN ZADRAN is fighting Karzai's appointees to the governorships of Paktika and neighboring Khost. U.S. officers believe Zadran, who retains links with al-Qaeda and Taliban elements, may pose a danger to U.S. forces...
...from the bedroom intimacy of the Adams Pool, the Loeb Mainstage offered sex writ larger in Titus Andronicus’s 15-person undie-clad orgy. With cast members still being recruited just days before opening night, there was no time for touchy-feely get-to-know-you games. “The idea of being in a mock orgy was weird,” says James L. Stillwell ’04, “because we didn’t know each other.We were all cracking up. That was a way for us to diffuse the tension...
...exaggerated marshmallow bunnies, perched atop cans of paint on a transparent tarpaulin. They are, to be sure, shiny and distasteful, but again this seems to be Mueller’s intent. The bunnies aren’t themselves sculptures—they are caricatures of sculptures, caricatures of art writ large...
...bemused. "It's amazing how many men know this quote from the Koran--if they know nothing else in it," he says. Most already understand the "beatings" as light taps. Further study, he maintains, would reveal that husband may punish wife for religious infractions only and that holy writ calls for "mutual consultation between husband and wife." He says so to men who come to him for Islamic counseling--advice they might have been less likely to get before moving here...