Word: subjecting
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Civil law in Egypt is grounded in the Shariah, the Islamic legal code. An extensive text whose passages can be read in conflicting ways, the Shariah has been subject to reinterpretation throughout its history. It is in this malleability that the best hope for securing equal rights for women lies. Egyptian activists are quick to point out that the divorce amendments did not come at the expense of religious law, but were successful precisely because they were justified in the context of religious teachings. Indeed, a crux of the reform movement was its ability to stave off the objections...
There are many reasons it doesn't work, of course, including problematic divisions of subject area, a refusal on the part of the Faculty to let enough concentration courses count for Core credit and the general difficulty you would always find in trying to administer a College-wide system of education. Thousands of us fulfill Core requirements each semester, but it often seems as though the Core Office treats those requirements the same way we do: as classes to check off the list, not as individual golden opportunities to teach students something new. The Core is at the bottom...
...event billed as an intersection between the West and the East on the subject of spirituality, Deepak Chopra, the well-known physician and spiritual author, and Harvey G. Cox, who is Thomas Professor of Divinity, contemplated God last night at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
McCain's signature issue is campaign finance reform, though he has watered down the legislation he has introduced to Congress on the subject...
...issues and a spate of mock-angry accusations in "debates" - by adults who hope to lead the nation - that the opponent's mother wears army boots. It is not all bad. The conventions - great countrywide pep rallies - will come in summer's heat, and the long campaign will subject both candidates to the kinds of pressures and scrutiny that in the end serve the country well. But the nominating process, which has seemingly approved the status quo with such finality, might stand some tuning as this new century progresses...