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While these ideas aren’t new, students said, they are solidifying now as a result of recent changes in the IOP’s leadership. Glickman’s arrival at the IOP in August catalyzed the process because of the new director’s commitment to the idea of national work, Buttigieg said...
...homes become cathedral theme parks. Yet each year Graceland, Presley's residence in Memphis, welcomes more than half a million Elvisitors, and many are true believers: call them Presleyterians. Like the Christian liturgical calendar, the Presleyterians' has two crucial dates. Today, the star's birthday, is their Christmas; and August 16, his death date, is their Good Friday. A star may have died, but something is being born. Maybe the Church of Elvis...
William Graham, who is Albertson professor of Middle Eastern studies and professor of the history of religion, was named acting dean of the Divinity School last January and was named to fill the post permanently in August...
...Although such revelations, if true, might seem innocuous to a casual observer, they are heretical to Sugihara's staunchest defenders and have triggered a ferocious legal and rhetorical response. In August, a libel suit for some $83,000 was filed in Tokyo against Levine's Japanese publisher, claiming that the book is a farrago of lies designed to discredit Sugihara and his memory. Levine calls the accusation preposterous, telling TIME that his real intention was to "make well-known the glorious meaning of Sugihara." A new round of hearings is set to begin this month...
After the war, Weller defied a ban by the U. S. government against visiting the atomic bomb cites in Japan. Weller was the first Western civilian reporter to enter Nagasaki after it was devastated by a nuclear bomb in August...