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...emerge in a powerful position. Many observers believe al-Yawer has the potential to become what the new Iraq sorely lacks: a moderate Sunni leader who can unite disgruntled Sunnis without alienating the majority Shi'ites. "He has a lot of strengths--a tribal background, a modern attitude, youth," says Iyad al-Samarrai, secretary-general of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni political group. "He will be an important political figure in Iraq for a long time." Juan Cole, an Iraq expert at the University of Michigan, says, "He's the great white hope of the Sunnis...
...like Alexander the Great, were at that point bestowed upon Roman leaders within decades of their actual deaths. Was Luke selling out the Jewish tradition that had helped shape Jesus and Matthew? Hardly. He clearly cared about Judaism, paraphrasing frequently from the Scriptures and setting scenes of Jesus' later youth in the great Jewish temple. But by the time Luke wrote, says John Dominic Crossan, author of The Birth of Christianity, "Christians are competing in a bigger world now, not just a Jewish world ... And in this wider world, Alexander the Great is the model for Augustus and Augustus often...
Bolds-Jackson is one rare instructor. With the growth of girls' sports over the past 30 years, female coaches have become increasingly common in most sports--some guiding high school and college squads, others leading a daughter's youth-soccer team to a title. Last season 12% of the Youth Basketball Organization's 4,300 coaching members were women, which is double the percentage five years earlier. Over the same period, the percentage of female coaches in U.S. youth soccer grew from about...
...coach Division I college football. "They would have to change society first," says White, an assistant at Georgia Tech in the late 1980s. "It's not an antiwoman thing. Most women just don't fit the conception of what a football coach is supposed to be, even at the youth level...
Safo’s interest in public service has translated into mentoring school children in Roxbury with Women and Youth Supporting Each Other and volunteering with Habitat for Humanity. Safo also participates in Project Baby, a program that helps educate Boston-area families about child care...