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With his 22nd novel, Terrorist (Knopf; 320 pages), Updike answers his own question. Terrorist is the startlingly contemporary story of Ahmad, a high school student in a crumbling New Jersey town whose zealous Islamic faith and disaffection with modern life make him a pawn in the larger, fitfully violent conflict between Muslim and Christian, East and West. They also make him a powerful voice for Updike's abiding, ongoing critique of American civilization, as well as a uniquely tragic individual in his own right...
...including officers of (but not representing) the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club, as well as a few UC leaders and a few bloggers, successfully led the charge in petitioning UC representatives to accept the “2x2” plan. Only through activists’ zealous blogging, posting on house e-mail lists, and contacting UC members were representatives eventually persuaded to vote “yea.” Such actions by members of the student body—including those who furthered the debate by arguing against “2x2?...
...Canada's embassy in Washington. That could affect the large amount of container traffic at Canadian ports that ends up in the U.S. Transport Canada officials insist security at Canadian ports is as good as, if not better than, at American ports. Even so, Americans may get even more zealous about inspecting cargo arriving from Canada--underlining a growing divergence of views about how to vet port security...
...MUSLIM COMMUNITIES. DO YOU THINK MUSLIMS IN AUSTRALIA COULD DO MORE TO FIT INTO THE MAINSTREAM? I think we could all do more. Muslims have a particular responsibility because (the extremists) are part of their community. I do think that part of the problem is that we became too zealous in our multiculturalism. Australians don't mind where people come from, as long as they become Australians. Nobody's asking people to give up affection for their original culture. But people don't come here so they can continue to be x, y and z. They come here to enjoy...
...marchers in Kabul lastweek were in their teens and early 20s, the kind of zealous, energetic youths Westerners might have hoped would be clamoring for democracy or human rights. Instead, the cause of their protest was caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, first published last September by a Danish newspaper called Jyllands-Posten, which in the past two weeks have provoked Muslims around the world to denounce not just the offending illustrators but also French newspaper editors, Norwegian diplomats, U.S. troops in Iraq and peddlers of Danish food. In Kabul the protest signs read DEATH TO DENMARK and DEATH...