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Duffy gave a thumbnail sketch of Kerik's unpleasant youth and more recent adventures and skewed them into shadowy misadventures, thus trivializing the man's merits and suggesting that what he ultimately did for his city and country was insignificant and self-serving. The intent to mask the story as a critical essay on loyalty--well, it just didn't make the stretch. Ripping Kerik through Giuliani and Giuliani through Kerik is a trite and wearisome pastime...
...keen awareness of what's at stake in his troubled homeland. Between his shoulder blades is a large tattoo of a snake and the initials E.I.S., for the words "Ethnic Identity Sucks." Though the entire Serb minority fled Ferizaj after the war, Dani has met many Serbs at youth conferences elsewhere in the Balkans. He'd also traveled in Serb villages in Kosovo right after the war while interpreting for U.S. troops, and he saw one old woman who'd just been badly beaten by local Albanians. "This land we have fought over is not any of ours," he says...
...issue, stating both that Islam is the religion of the federation and that freedom of religion is guaranteed.) Abdullah told TIME, "We are not a secular state, but neither are we a theocracy." But such hedging seems unlikely to satisfy all constituencies. Liow Tiong Lai, the head of the youth wing of the Malaysian Chinese Association, part of the usually cohesive National Front coalition, asserted that Malaysia was indeed a secular nation. Bernard Giluk Dompok, a minister in Abdullah's Cabinet who is Christian, concurs. "If we define Malaysia as an Islamic state," he told TIME, "the implication is that...
...biggest stars last year—Patty Kazmaier Award winner Julie Chu for the Crimson and 2007 ECAC Player of the Year Gillian Apps for the Big Green—along with other key players, and have shown the ability to remain competitive while transitioning in an influx of youth. “The good news for both of us is it’s not about marquee players anymore,” Stone said. “It’s about young players learning the game. We have better balance and depth than we had a year...
...does a student define herself by one organization alone. Appended to every Facebook profile is an elaborate series of acronyms that, put together, suggest that this really is somebody: HIR, HPT, IOP, PBHA. You may not be UC President. But who else is the Business Secretary of Women and Youth Supporting Each Other and the Vice President of the Harvard Romanian Association and the only coloratura soprano in the Harvard Krokodiloes? Each additional acronym carves out a niche in which you can predominate. And with each acronym comes another bracketed e-mail list.True Love Revolution—yet another...