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When Barack Obama’s two faculty mentors at Harvard Law got in trouble for plagiarism, they were rescued by Dean Elena Kagan. In 1989, Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe hired first-year Harvard law student Barack Obama as his research assistant.  After Obama was elected president, Tribe would gush, "His stunning combination of analytical brilliance and personal charisma, openness and maturity, vision and pragmatism, was unmistakable from my very first encounter." Obama had one other prominent mentor among the Harvard faculty, Professor Charles Ogletree, an African American.  In the run-up to the election, Ogletree would enthuse, "I'm so excited about this candidacy...

NEW YORK: Since September 11, 2001 attacks, the Americans Muslims have been under intense security from terrorism fighters, but they have also been getting some more welcome attention from US businesses. They have become a hot new niche market. This year, Hallmark Cards introduced greeting cards celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr. The new cards quickly sold out. In 2002, the US Postal Service printed 35 million Eid stamps as part of its holiday celebrations series. This year, it expects to sell 44 million of the royal blue stamps, which feature the Arabic phrase, "Eid Mubarik" (Blessed be your Holiday) Form-hiding gowns for Muslim...

Disbelief and anger greet arrest of devout Muslim Matthew Taylor Saturday November 29, 2003 The Guardian The image of Sajid Badat as an Islamist terrorist was met with disbelief and anger in his home town of Gloucester yesterday. Since the arrest on Thursday morning the authorities have described the man who was arrested as a potential suicide bomber with links to al-Qaida. According to some reports he was planning to blow himself up at a football match or target the royal family or the government's listening centre GCHQ, in Cheltenham. But as forensic specialists continued to scour the house in...

LAGOS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Islamic militants burned to the ground thirteen churches and several houses in a remote northern Nigerian town after a Christian student was accused of blasphemy, police said on Thursday. Irate youths torched churches, houses and shops late on Tuesday in Kazaure, some 80 km (50 miles) north of Kano, a northern provincial capital where hundreds have died in religious clashes in the past three years. The dispute began when a Christian student was accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammad and a group of Muslims were not satisfied with the response of school authorities. Abubakar Sale,...