LeTemps (Suisse) Victim tells of ordeal in Tunisia's jails | World news | The Observer When the guards came to release Adem Boukadida with 20 other men from the white-walled compound of Tunisia's Mornghouia prison, just outside the capital, Tunis, they told him: "Go and get your stuff." That's all. The 30-year-old graduate of Al-Azhar University, which the old regime of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali regarded with suspicion for its Islamist links, could barely walk. The stories of men like Boukadida, finally released last Thursday, fuel the continuing anger against those in the interim government who were closely associated with the Ben Ali regime. The stories are of brutality, corruption and everyday cruelty at the hands of his police state. Boukadida, a short, stocky man with a full beard, was trying to escape arrest when pushed from a second-floor window by police in his home town of Sousse in November. It is a charge he denies, but it laid him open to the attentions of a regime that specialised in arbitrary violence. The police caught up with him.
journalisted.com A spotlight on Wall Street greed New York police on a rampage against demonstrators from Occupy Wall Street (Brennan Cavanaugh) DAILY PROTESTS and an ongoing park occupation in the financial district of New York City are gaining growing national attention as an expression of anger against Wall Street greed--and now the brutality of police against demonstrators, after the NYPD savagely attacked a march from the encampment to Union Square on September 24. The hundreds of people who have participated in Occupy Wall Street since it began September 17 are protesting economic inequality and the power wielded by banks and big corporations in U.S. society. The occupiers say they represent the 99 percent of society that is fed up with the massive wealth and corruption of the top 1 percent. The initial demonstration drew some 500 people to Bowling Green Park, site of the famous Charging Bull sculpture that is a famous symbol of Wall Street. What happens next for Occupy Wall Street? James Illingworth contributed to this article.
Bloggingheads.tv EPHEMERIS. Life & Arts - The art of good writing In 1919, the young EB White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr. Strunk assigned his self-published manual on composition entitled “The Elements of Style”, a 43-page list of rules of usage, principles of style and commonly misused words. It was a brief for brevity. “Vigorous writing is concise,” Strunk wrote. “When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter.” Though never explicitly political, The Elements of Style is unmistakably a product of its time. The trouble with the book isn’t the rules themselves, which the authors are sage enough to recognise “the best writers sometimes disregard”, but the knock-on effect that their bias for plain statement has tended to have not only on expositional but literary prose. Fish’s aim is to offer a guide to sentence craft and appreciation that is both deeper and more democratic. Why is this important?
Extreme Cello There Will Be a Protest to Protest the Treatment of Occupy Wall Street Protesters Occupy Wall Street is now in its 12th day. This morning brought another march on Wall Street. In other cities, similar efforts are springing up. In a press release Vitale issued today, he says that more than 1,000 people, including "dozens of trade union leaders, academics, writers, students, and other New Yorkers" are expected on Friday, to communicate their disagreement with how protests are handled in New York City and, ultimately, to attempt to get "the mayor put together a commission to look at the right way to handle protests." Vitate writes, On September 24th, members of Occupy Wall Street marched to Union Square, and were subsequently met with extreme police violence, including violent arrests of non-violent protesters and pepper-spraying people in police custody. Lewis and Vitale both serve on the Executive Council PSC-CUNY, and decided to organize their protest after hearing from people that they wanted to "do something."
Self-Interest, Homo Islamicus and Some Behavioral Assumptions in Islamic Economics and Finance by Mohammad Farooq Independent2011 International Journal of Excellence in Islamic Banking and Finance, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 52-79, January 2011 Abstract: The theoretical foundation of Islamic economics and finance is based on, among other things, Homo Islamicus or Islamic Man. Islamic economics and finance theoreticians contrast Homo Islamicus with Homo economicus or the Economic Man. Number of Pages in PDF File: 14 Keywords: Economic man, Self-interest, Economic systems, Moral norms, Normative theory, Religion JEL Classification: D64, K0, Z12 Accepted Paper Series Suggested Citation Farooq, Mohammad Omar, Self-Interest, Homo Islamicus and Some Behavioral Assumptions in Islamic Economics and Finance (2011).