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Winter formal season may still be more than a month away, but Harvard students and Boston residents were putting their dancing skills to good use this Saturday at the Ballroom Dance Team’s first competition of the year. The 14th Annual Harvard Beginner’s Competition took place in the Malkin Athletic Center basketball court, where high heels traversed the three-point line with a lithe daintiness rarely shown by the venue’s typical visitors. The event—held on Saturday—was host to mainly new dancers, although some in the Bronze...
Harvard is still awaiting the return of two stolen paintings—including one depicting the University’s 14th president, John T. Kirkland—as art history experts continue to dispute the provenance of the Kirkland portrait...
...Returning to the Green Zone on Thursday, this time entering through checkpoints along the 14th of July Bridge, I found the sergeant in charge of the crossing in no laughing mood as he stood, tense, in the blazing heat wearing full body armor, overseeing the movement of people across a bridge that has drawn sniper fire in recent weeks. He checked my badge and my passport and asked to see another form of identification. I gave him my Washington, D.C., drivers license, which he said he needed to keep at the checkpoint while I was inside. I was assured, however...
...That's because in his speech in Germany, the Pope had effectively challenged Muslims to an inter-faith dialogue less preoccupied with diplomacy. Of course, that speech turned into a worldwide diplomatic incident, largely because Benedict had cited a 14th century Byzantine emperor's statement branding the contribution to religion of Islam's Prophet Muhammad as "things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." The Pope has since clarified that he does not agree with those words, and has repeatedly expressed his esteem for Muslims. Says a senior Vatican official...
...Papal Fallibility The extreme reaction of Muslims to an obscure 14th century quotation by Pope Benedict XVI serves only to demonstrate their fanatical bent [Sept. 25]. Had 25 ayatullahs been kidnapped and beheaded, the reaction would not have been greater. While Christianity has taken its rightful share of blame for the Crusades, the Inquisition and crimes against Jews, Islam seems to be exempt from criticism-with a death penalty waiting for those who dare criticize. Today a faith that foments violence, brutality and even the indiscriminate destruction of civilians, including its own adherents, all in the name of God, must...