Granting that Šāh Walī Allāh laid the foundations of modern Qur’ān interpretation in India, what is to be said about the complexion and rôle of the great religious institution at Deoband, the Dār al-ʿUlūm which claims to continue the teachings of Šāh Walī Allāh and his immediate successors.

'I'm a fatalist,' said Mr James Anderton, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester. … James Anderton in his suite of offices on the eleventh floor of the modern glass-and-concrete police building, looking out over his domain, his patch, his manor.

John Huston provides a few of the worst moments himself, or, at least, his tape editor does it for him by bumblingly patching on Huston's voice in one series of spot announcements—Jehovah himself dictating Creation to the sounds of [Toshiro] Mayuzumi's fade-in, fade-out neo-primordial slither. Even for what it is, the music is badly performed, poorly recorded, and blottoed by a veritable orgy of editing and dial diddling.

Some U.S. banks are cutting back their dealings with embassies and other foreign institutions in the United States because of the difficulty of complying with money-laundering rules, the Wall Street Journal reported.