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Early this summer, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 asked a task force—including Associate Dean of the College Georgene Herschbach, Director of the Committee on Education Abroad John H. Coatsworth, Harvard College Professor Jorge I. Dominguez, Edwards, a representative from the General Counsel, a student, and others—to reevaluate Harvard’s travel policy...
...we’re back to square one, catering to people who are sure that evolution and the existence of God are mutually exclusive—a view with which many religious authorities disagree (Pope Benedict XVI might be a good example), let alone scientists. People, of course, can believe whatever they want, and it shouldn’t be of any particular concern to us—except when they interfere with the educational process by calling something science that simply isn’t science...
...four students approached Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 late in April and eventually received funding from the Dean’s Office, Yagan said...
...catching-up or theological rap session, Ratzinger might have invited K?ng for dinner during his two decades as a Rome-based cardinal. Instead, it appears that the new pope wants to establish an ongoing open dialogue with those who may have different views. The K?ng dinner is, in fact, Benedict's third potentially controversial encounter in the past month. In late August, the pope met with the Italian writer Oriana Fallaci, who has penned fiercely anti-Muslim books since 9/11, and then two days later he welcomed Bishop Bernard Fellay, the excommunicated head of an ultraconservative movement founded...
...hard to know the specific motivation behind Benedict's desire to meet with each of these surprise visitors. But it is by now clear that the new Pope is conscious that his job description has radically changed. As Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for 20 years, Cardinal Ratzinger had been responsible for keeping certain arguments on theological lock-down. But when you become father to a flock of 1 billion, your dining-room door must be kept as open as possible...