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...Still, none of this obscures our concerns about certain views among the religious right. Unfortunately, there are elements in the Evangelical community who would like to impose Christianity by government edict. Some openly call for the Christianization of America, claiming that America has always been a Christian nation and that all institutions should be Christianized. Others, less dramatically, are calling for policies that would amount to religious coercion...
...doors (or windows at least) of this hermit country. Amitav Ghosh's big novel, The Glass Palace, filled its pages with research about Burma under the British. Pascal Khoo Thwe, in his From the Land of Green Ghosts, offered a lyrical and inspiring look at life within a Karen Christian village (and the ongoing Karen insurrection), and of his own unlikely passage from guerrilla and waiter to Cambridge student. Even Amy Tan's last novel, Saving Fish From Drowning, is set in Burma, among American tourists who bat back and forth the arguments for and against boycotts. Thant Myint...
...which search committee members have traveled coast-to-coast to solicit alumni opinion, consulted with student and faculty advisory committees, and cast a wide net for candidates—the process of appointing Lowell “was just a formality,” according to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who teaches Religion 1513, “History of Harvard and Its Presidents...
...have a problem with not meeting our obligations to veterans—a lot of unhappy veterans,” she said. “You will have more veterans who will fall through the cracks in one way or another.” —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...started his own football education in Waco, Texas, at 9 and later became a student at Emmitt Smith's running-back camp. "You knew he had that 'it,'" remembers Smith. LT even started sleeping with a football and didn't stop until his junior year of college at Texas Christian University, where he led the nation in rushing in consecutive years. "The ball would lie in his arms like a girlfriend," says Tomlinson's younger brother LaVar, 24. "And I can never remember that ball being on the floor." He who fails to fumble in slumber won't cough...