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...overcome the lobbying strength of Harvard and other Massachusetts universities, the current system of unequal costs, unshared burdens and unceasing strife seems likely to continue. After all, there’s historical precedent—acquisitions of land by the Church continued almost unabated after 1279. Undying corporations do tend to stick around, especially ones that are already many centuries (or millennia) old. But it’s about time that the people of Massachusetts took the responsibility to preserve the local tax base out of Harvard’s dead hand and into their...
...women in the family know about it. Women in Dasht-i-Qaleh call rape "lying down" because it is so common that lying down quietly is the best way for a woman to cope. In a society that permits men several wives, the second or third wives, who tend to be younger and prettier, are vulnerable to rape by other males in the family. Banaz says this happened to her sister, who was 14 when she was married off as the third wife of a local landowner. "It was a good marriage for the family," says Banaz...
...women in the family know about it. Women in Dasht-i-Qaleh call rape "lying down" because it is so common that lying down quietly is the best way for a woman to cope. In a society that permits men several wives, the second or third wives, who tend to be younger and prettier, are vulnerable to rape by other males in the family. Banaz says this happened to her sister, who was 14 when she was married off as the third wife of a local landowner. "It was a good marriage for the family," says Banaz...
...history has proved, the dust never quite settles in Afghanistan. At night, the streets of Mazar aren't exactly safe; residents lock themselves in high-walled homes and the pop and crack of gunfire sounds across the city until dawn. Even in daytime, people tend to remain within their neighborhoods, which are lumped into three zones under the control of Dostum, Atta or Mohaqiq. The Hazaras catch most of the blame for the city's violence. In fact, they have most cause for revenge: when the Taliban took the city in 1998 they singled out Hazaras...
...alone. Whenever U.S. filmmakers need to cast the bad guy in a blockbuster, they tend to seek out someone with an English accent, whether it's Patrick Stewart in Conspiracy Theory (where he menaced Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson) or Jeremy Irons, Rickman's successor in Die Hard with a Vengeance. No more. Now the Brits, thanks to Tony Blair's early and articulate support for the war against terrorism, have reached unprecedented levels of popularity among Americans, leaving filmmakers scrambling to find another country whose citizens' very accent can make an audience squirm. (The French...