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...right now it's the loudest. The head-scarf debate - like anything to do with religion - is charged with emotion. France defends its ban in schools as a necessary step to maintain the nation's official commitment to secularism, pointing out that it also applies to Jewish skullcaps and Christian crosses. But Birgit Sauer, a political scientist at the University of Vienna, says the timing of these new laws shows that Europe is still unwilling to accept Islam as an element of its identity. "All these states had trouble balancing religion with secularism long before Sept. 11," she says...
...guide and are asked to get training,” Petersen said. “If we can identify those 30 over the course of the semester, then this program will have been a complete success.” —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
According to the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian Morals, Pusey minister in the Memorial Church and resident Harvard historian, the only institution with which the Harvard presidency can be properly compared is the Papacy...
...Writing in their book, “General Education in a Free Society,” the authors of the 1945 curricular reform at Harvard lamented: “As recently as a century ago no doubt existed about [the] purpose [of general education]: it was to train the Christian citizen…[But] this enviable certainty has largely disappeared...
...Hariri was speaking hours after two remote-controlled bombs, filled with steel pellets, exploded minutes apart in two buses near the Christian town of Bikfaya in the Lebanese mountains 20 miles north of Beirut. The blasts killed three people and wounded over 20, heightening tensions a day before hundreds of thousands of Lebanese are expected to converge on downtown Beirut to commemorate Rafik Hariri's murder two years ago. Hariri condemned the explosions as an "act of terrorism" that aimed to "fill the hearts of people with fear." "I can't tell you that they [the perpetrators] haven't succeeded...