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Barnes’ experience in Iran left a lasting impression on him. When Ferdows visited Barnes in Cambridge a little over a decade after Barnes’ tenure in Iran, he recalled seeing about 40 photos of ICMS professors, staff, and students in Barnes’ office...
...state that worshipped condo-flippers as great entrepreneurs, it was all a house of cards waiting to be blown down when the housing bubble burst. Now that it has happened, those Floridians who haven't left the state had hoped their officials might change the way they do things - or at least not attend a Kentucky Derby party hosted by the same FPL honchos lobbying them for a rate hike, as a Florida Public Service Commission director has admitted to doing a few months ago. But if Miami and Florida officials can't get their acts together, they can probably...
...dedicated the book to everyone who has ever felt disconnected or hurt by organized religion. Given the growing numbers who have switched religions or left a church, that's a lot of people. That's one reason I had to write this book. Even in my own life, I've found that religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God. And by "religion," I don't mean "faith." I mean rituals, creeds, traditions, and often leaders - all of our means of trying to connect with God. They can get in the way of developing a relationship with...
...Suffered two serious falls in 1982, one which left him "60% disabled," according to doctors, and suffering from vertigo...
...there's no doubt that Muslims in largely Buddhist Thailand have faced decades of prejudice, even on an official level. In a particularly tragic incident in 2004, hundreds of Muslim protesters in the village of Tak Bai were rounded up by security forces, stuffed like sardines into trucks and left to roast in the heat during a drive to an army detention center in Pattani. At least 78 people suffocated to death, and seven others died during the demonstration itself. Then Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose administration had taken a particularly hard line in the south, claimed that the detainees...