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...show needs its epiphany. Al-Emam is part of the team developing MTV Arabia, a channel for the Arab world that will make its debut on Nov. 17, and Al Helm is the local version of the popular MTV show Made. Al Helm, however, is more than just youthful wish fulfillment. "It's very powerful and unusual for an Arab man to admit failure like that on TV," al-Emam says. And in Saudi Arabia, MTV's largest market in the Middle East, the episode quietly subverts the Saudi law prohibiting women from driving. As a Saudi female race...
...most appropriately located outside the curriculum. This has in some measure changed, and numbers of classes—in music performance, painting, sculpture, writing, photography, film production, for example—now can be taken for credit. Yet such classes are never adequate for the number of students who wish to take them, and we retain vestiges of earlier attitudes in our treatment of the creative arts as subjects for academic credit in the undergraduate curriculum. Recognizing that any alteration in the undergraduate curriculum rests with the faculty of the FAS [Faculty of Arts and Sciences] and the resource decisions...
...owner of small logistics firm in Beijing, Ma was forced to shut it down temporarily earlier this week after he simply couldn't find enough diesel to fuel his company's 20 trucks. "Gas stations even serving diesel have been difficult to come across," says Ma, who didn't wish to give his first name. "I'm losing 100,000 renminbi...
...like to clarify things for them. Waterboarding is a form of torture that involves tipping a person back, placing a cloth in his or her mouth, and then repeatedly pouring water into the cloth to simulate the feeling of drowning. While campaigning politicians and potential cabinet secretaries may wish to muddy the water with contrived scenarios and ambiguous legalese, the reality is actually fairly simple. Waterboarding is torture, and torture is inherently immoral. The United States should never stoop to such a practice. Outside of the political arena, there doesn’t seem to be much confusion. Institutions such...
...that’s all one can ask for, really. Lowell is having a Toga Party; hopefully it’ll be more successful than Mather’s lackluster effort of three years past. Friday, Nov. 2. Lowell House. $5. 5) Starlight, Starbright… Make a wish on a star at The Gilliland Observatory on top of the Museum of Science’s garage roof, open for free viewings every Friday night. The perfect date for you and that cutie you’ve been eyeing in your science fiction class. First come, first served. Friday evenings...