Word: sectionalism
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...Sunni and Shi'ite families from more than a dozen ethnic backgrounds. In many mosques abroad and in the U.S., women are required to pray in rooms separate from the men. At ADAMS, women not only pray in the same room with the men (although in a partitioned-off section in the back), they hold four of the 13 seats on the mosque's board of trustees and chair a majority of its committees...
...Spain elected Zapatero in March of last year included pulling the troops out of Iraq and legalizing homosexual marriage. He's done both, and the latter move has outraged the PP. Backed by the bishops, it has rushed to the Constitutional Court, insisting it's implicit in the relevant section that marriage must be to a member of the opposite sex. While the court mulls, local mayors continue to wed over-the-moon gays and lesbians, and no one can guess what will become of these legal unions should they be ruled unconstitutional. Can you "unmarry" a couple not seeking...
Steven Soderbergh, who directed Traffic and whose production company, Section Eight, bought the rights to See No Evil, negotiated the deal with Warner Bros., even though details about the movie were nonexistent. "In those situations," says Soderbergh, "you never expect the studio to see the UFO, but you've got to make them believe you saw it." Still, Gaghan needed a story, and See No Evil was no help. Even Baer admits that much of the book is so esoteric that it's "wasted on everyone but Israeli intelligence...
...inert object in a fixed world. We are turned into empty receptacles for this pre-packaged knowledge, which we are then expected to regurgitate upon command. Implicitly, our curriculum dictates that we passively accept this rigid veritas and, correspondingly, the way the world is. Theoretically, the discussion section that accompanies so many of our lecture courses is the place for this veritas to come alive. It is our chance to challenge “the truth” as given to us by our professors, engage with it, relate it to our own academic work, or even (gasp!) our personal...
...clubs, I was still standing on doorsteps, waiting to be let in. I started to get tired of laughing at jokes that weren’t that funny and batting my eyelashes at the guy standing at the door. I would sit next to club members in section during the week and then have to perpetually be their “guests” at parties on the weekend. I ended my sophomore year still trying to wrap my mind around what exactly made me so angry about my experiences as a woman at Harvard (and in the world...