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...Maimonides had been alive for his 850th birthday celebration in Paris last December [RELIGION, Dec.23], he would have been startled by the participants, by TIME's comments and by the party itself. After all, what role do Reform and Conservative rabbis play at a Maimonides memorial? They have jettisoned most if not all of his 13 Articles of Faith. Deny even one, says Maimonides, and you deny Judaism. Are they the ones to wish him a happy birthday? Then there is Kuwaiti Professor Abderrahmane Badawi, who embraces Maimonides as an Arab philosopher. But Maimonides, while not branding Islam as idolatry...
Last week for the first time, the U.S. began celebrating King's birthday as a national holiday. When Congress in 1983 established the third Monday of January as a federal observance, it bestowed upon King an honor granted to only one other U.S. citizen, George Washington.[*] While an estimated 5 million civilian and military personnel were given this Monday off, the tributes to King began on Jan. 15, his actual birthday, and in some cases before that. From Alaska to Florida, candlelight vigils, religious services, concerts, photo exhibits, readings and teach-ins were held in commemoration. "There is a heightened...
Amid the ceremony, King's friends and former colleagues urged that the civil rights leader's birthday become an occasion not simply for dreamy nostalgia but for an honest inquiry into the meaning of King's life and its impact on the nation. Former King Aide Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker worried about "the risk of getting oversentimental and romanticizing the man to the point that he becomes unreal. The way to honor him is to understand what his work was and commit yourself to doing something...
Your story on the 40th birthday party for the ENIAC reminds me of the phenomenal strides made in computer technology in a relatively short period of time [COMPUTERS, Feb. 24]. But unfortunately, in retelling the controversy over the patent, you made John Atanasoff appear as the villain of the piece. The Honeywell-Sperry Rand trial was a lengthy and thorough process, and after reviewing the trial transcript of 20,667 pages, the judge took seven months before handing down a statement that included this sentence: "Eckert and Mauchly did not themselves first invent the automatic electronic digital computer, but instead...
...Manila and New York. In one of the tapes, taken by an exclusive presidential crew, Imelda cavorts with bejeweled guests in a private Malacaņang disco, complete with disk jockey's booth and man-made waterfall. Another video chronicles an abandoned bacchanal aboard the presidential yacht, celebrating the birthday of the youngest of the three Marcos offspring, Irene Araneta, last year. A man in a baby bonnet bursts out of a cake. The First Lady jives under flashing strobe lights with an American consular official dressed in Bermuda shorts. Then Ferdinand Marcos Jr., a former provincial governor known to family...