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Time Magazine runs a cover story on Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetero, but bowdlerizes her leftist politics and exotiphilic sexuality. For example, Time vaguely burbles: Shortly before she moved to Hawaii, Stanley saw her first foreign film.
Black Orpheus was an award-winning musical retelling of the myth of Orpheus, a tale of doomed love. The movie was considered exotic because it was filmed in Brazil, but it was written and directed by white Frenchmen. The result was sentimental and, to some modern eyes, patronizing. Years later Obama saw the film with his mother and thought about walking out. But looking at her in the theater, he glimpsed her 16-year-old self. I suddenly realized, he wrote in his memoir,
venice and author of the best-selling autobiography infidel and she was her polar opposite as a woman called aafia siddiqui and she she is a pakistani neuroscientist who for a long time is the only woman wanted as an associate of al qaeda and was eventually captured in 2000 designate and convicted of firing at american personnel in afghanistan. so the book follows these two muslim women have about the same issue became complete opposites. and it tries to sort of tells the story of the war on terror through their story. to one in touch in these positions and yet you talk about this weird symmetry between the two. could you explain us? guest: they are about the same age and they came to the west from the periphery of the muslim world at around the same time, end of the cold war. and they both were strongly influenced by islamism. and even though they turned out one becoming a critic of islam, harsh critic of islam and want a harsh critic of the west, it is possible to imagi
to common sense to me because the group there as well and it s common to anyone else who does the work. but there are so many different organizations in and around boston doing the work that sometimes i feel like they aren t working together. sometimes? okay. all the time. my question is how we get all of our organizations on the same page and doing the same work at the same time so that we can actually be making a difference? it is common sense. it is so common sense and i called one of my girlfriends after we finished of the boston stuff in california and said we ve had this break through. we are going to talk to them and tell them that first group is going to get our attention and offer them help and it s amazing. then there was dead silence on the other end of the phone and judy said what have they been doing? we should be ashamed of ourselves. we really should. and we are not all pulling together. it isn t common sense to everybody, and i ve come to believe that th
and on after words, the book follows these two muslim women of about the same age who became complete opposites, and it tries to sort of tell the story of the war on terror through their stories. deborah scroggins looks at islam and the war on terror from wanted women. sunday night at 9 p.m. eastern. ashraf khalil talks about the january 2011 egyptian revolution and what has happened in that country over the past year. it s about an hour, 15 minutes. welcome, everybody. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] we re glad to see everyone here. we have c-span taping this event. we will begin with a conversation. we have with us, first, let me introduce myself, i m leyla halal directing the middle east task force here, and we have with us today two very distinguished guests, and we re very excited to have this conversation at such a timely period in egypt s history as we see from the news that it continues to face turmoil and upheaval. to my left is rob malley. he
exemptions of children whose parents own a farm or substantial interest in a farm or partnership or corporation. farm groups said that rules would upset traditions where the children work alongside parents and relatives to learn how a farm operates. in detroit ford and chrysler reporting better sales for january although gm says that the sales fell 6% compared to a strong month a year ago. ford sales were up 7% on the strong demand for small cars and suvs and chrysler says that the january domestic sales rose 40% over a year ago. from the health and the human services department on the federal level medicare advantage enrollments have risen bigger than expected last year by 10% as the average premiums have fallen 7%. annual enrollment is 12.8 million and the average premiums have fallen over 7% to $31.54. confirming some loose projections the medicare enrollment plans would continue the rise and average premiums would continue to fall. and finally on capitol hill, a documen