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...response yesterday. “If a delay there was, it had to do with the dissemination of correct information and not speculation,” said Conley. Students and representatives at yesterday’s Kirkland meeting also discussed security methods, such as video surveillance, which currently is absent from the House. —Staff writer Noah S. Rayman can be reached at nrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...White House, Netanyahu pointedly refused to endorse the principle of Palestinian statehood, a cornerstone both of the peace process and of U.S. Middle East policy. The Israeli leader made clear that he wants the Palestinians to govern themselves but added the caveat that self-governance would be "absent a handful of powers that could endanger the State of Israel." (Netanyahu believes Israel's security cannot tolerate the Palestinians having such typical features of statehood as sovereign control over their own borders, air space and defense and foreign policies.) And while he committed to holding talks with the Palestinian Authority...
...However, such discussion of philosophy and qualifications has been notably and disturbingly absent from the public discourse on Souter’s replacement. Instead, the discussion has been largely confined to identity politics...
Indeed, it is in dissecting this Pope's ideas - often now cloaked in more diplomatic language that was absent in Regensburg - that we can see that he is still preoccupied with the contemporary interplay (or lack thereof) of faith and reason, and the risk of rising inter-religious conflict. Speaking after a visit inside the al-Hussein Ben-Talal mosque, the Pope acknowledged that "tensions and divisions between the followers of different religious traditions, sadly, cannot be denied." But Benedict said that Muslims and Christians have a shared obligation to counter the contemporary idea that "religion is necessarily a cause...
...mariachi bands and their tunes of past glories were deafeningly silent; the dances of women in handmade red dresses nowhere to be found; the reenactments by men dressed as tunic-clad soldiers notably absent. For the first time in 147 years since a small band of Mexican forces defeated the French imperial army, Mexico cancelled popular fiestas of Cinco de Mayo to avoid revelers spreading the deadly swine...