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...professor at George Washington University and one of the 38 signatories to the October letter to Benedict, says the Pope should deliver an "earnest expression of commonality"--even if it's only the widely accepted observation that Judaism, Christianity and Islam all claim descent from the biblical figure of Abraham. Father Richard McBrien, a theologian at Notre Dame, says that "if he doesn't bring up the issue of reciprocal respect for Christian minorities, he's not doing his job," but that he should avoid an absolutist, now-or-never stance...
Marianne F. Kaletzky '08 and Abraham J. Riesman '08, arts chairs...
...centuries, Muslims have flocked to Mecca, Jews have traveled to the Western Wall, and Christian pilgrims have followed the Stations of the Cross. But if a negotiation expert at Harvard Law School has his way, adherents of the faiths that claim the prophet Abraham as a forebear will have a reason to walk together in the Middle East.On Tuesday, delegates from 10 countries, led by William L. Ury, director of the Harvard Global Negotiation Project (GNP), concluded a two-week tour of some of the Middle East’s most ancient and holy sites. The tour participants were looking...
...human beings are the only intelligent life in the universe has baffled scientists for decades. Two Harvard professors think they have identified the equipment they will need to recognize radio waves from outer space, though one of them remains skeptical that alien signals will ever be found. Astronomy Professor Abraham “Avi” Loeb and Professor of Astronomy and Physics Matias Zaldarriaga proposed earlier this month a way to use new radio wave observatories to search for radio emissions from alien civilizations. Loeb, whose main area of research focuses on mapping the age of the universe, said...
...Rather, most of Rich’s examples of Bush administration propaganda—everything from its shameless parading of the Jessica Lynch rescue to the inherently staged nature of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” landing on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln—have all been reported before one way or another, whether through the New York Times or “The Daily Show...