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It’s Monday night and you’re a hungry college student with a near empty wallet and a yearning for more than Harvard University Dining Services can offer. What should you do? A quick glance at your iPhone may provide the answer. That is if you’re an early adopter of Rover, an award-winning iPhone application created by a team of five Harvard students...
...remind us of his narrator’s transgressive fixations, Rosero interrogates the limits of our sympathy as readers. Is our identification with the suffering of others unconditional or, in fact, contingent upon the goodness of the sufferer? “The Armies” has no clear answer, but it hints at a radical skepticism that sits uneasily with our expectations of a novel that bears witness to the suffering of innocents...
...begins with an epigraph from Moliere: “N’y a-t-il point quelque danger a contrefaire le mort?” (“Is there not some danger in refusing death?”). Rosero’s novel offers us an answer: to refuse death is to invite madness in the form of Ismael’s cultish devotion to his missing wife. But it is also to maintain a kind of integrity, to supplant the inevitability of death with the logic of love, by marshalling “all the force...
...answer, at least in the short term, will depend on the Vatican's new policy. Any major move will require the resolution of key practical issues such as who owns church property, who can ordain priests, and other risks of dividing parishes over the desire by some into full communion with the Catholic Church. One conservative Anglican leader preparing to make the leap with his followers is hopeful that the Pope's decision to set up separate Anglican "personal ordinariates" - structurally similar to Catholic dioceses, but with married clergy and more democratic church governance - could attract growing numbers of traditionalists...
...that new sanctions may be imminent if Iran continue to prevaricate. The difficulty facing Washington in mustering support for ratcheting up pressure on Iran was already clear in Thursday's statement by a Russian foreign ministry official that, "As far as we know, there has been no final official answer from Tehran", and that "there is currently no discussion on working out additional sanctions against Iran." And Friday's Brussels meeting simply reaffirmed disappointment in Iran's failure to embrace the deal thus far, but reiterated the commitment of the Western powers, Russia and China to continue to engage...