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...more interesting. Even when Islamic extremists destroyed several churches and murdered a nun in Somalia, Benedict refused to retract the essence of his remarks. In one imperfect but powerful stroke, he departed from his predecessor's largely benign approach to Islam and discovered an issue that might attract even the most religiously jaded. In doing so, he managed (for better or worse) to reanimate the clash-of-civilizations discussion by focusing scrutiny on the core question of whether Islam, as a religion, sanctions violence. He was hailed by cultural conservatives worldwide. Says Helen Hull Hitchcock, a St. Louis...
Sony is also launching a Ferrari when a Porsche (the 360) or Mazda (the Wii) may work fine for many families. Games such as Brain Age and Guitar Hero, which attract the mainstream audience, often don't require the most advanced hardware--it's their novelty, storytelling and fun factor that count. Moreover, game publishers are increasingly going to multiplatform strategies for big titles, as production costs have soared. That means fewer exclusive games for one console system, an ominous sign for Sony with the priciest box on the shelves...
...Complicating matters is what Anwar calls "a global radical Islamic resurgence" that gains legitimacy from its vociferous opposition to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Although Indonesia desperately needs to attract foreign investment, which has lagged since the bombing campaign started, President Bush remains uniformly unpopular. The U.S. is expected to roll out tens of millions of dollars in funding for health, anti-poverty and education schemes during Bush's Monday visit. But such handouts may do little to convince many Indonesians of American goodwill. "I do not trust Bush," says Mizram, a 20-year-old student who joined...
...drastically improved by expanding the hiring of full-time, non-tenure track teachers. Harvard has needless and counterproductive restrictions on how long one can teach at Harvard if one is not on the ladder to become a tenured professor. These archaic policies should be rescinded so that Harvard can attract the best teachers in addition to the best researchers...
...role in selecting candidates for tenure, and only departments—not interdisciplinary committees like social studies—can hire permanent faculty. This leads to two problems. First, departments often select professors with similar specialties. This leads to concentrations of outstanding professors in some subspecialties, who in turn attract other top scholars and top graduate students. While such a strategy can be beneficial for developing fledgling departments and groups of experts on key topics, it has the potential to leave tremendous voids in which Harvard has few experts. The best example of this is that the philosophy department...