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Monday, Oct. 10. “Jesus and Yahweh: The Names of the Divine.” Yale professor Harold Bloom, best known for his scholarship on Shakespeare, argues that the idea of a shared Judeo-Christian tradition is misleading. 6:30 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church...
...Lebanese civil war of the 1970s and '80s made the perfect backdrop for romance, chilled beer and good surf. Now Beirut's club scene offers a choice spot to get a taste of that cinematic vision: 1975, a tiny bar named for the year Shi'ite, Sunni and Christian militias sparked the 15-year conflict that devastated the city and killed thousands, including 241 U.S. Marines...
...muster a military force to invade a foreign country but be unable to quickly provide aid to its own hurricane victims? Could it be that these predominantly poor victims are considered unworthy of a massive deployment of our military to provide for their basic needs? Bush is a Christian, as am I. Is this really a Christ-like response to people in need? Norman E. Gibson Sacramento, California...
...nobody wins. It is tempting to compare Germany '05 with the U.S. presidential election in Florida five years ago, but wrong. In Florida, after much counting and recounting, somebody won?George W. Bush. Yet in Germany, Gerhard Schr?der, the Social Democrat, was trounced?and so was Angela Merkel, his Christian-Democratic challenger. The Chancellor and his junior partner, the Greens, lost their majority, but Frau Merkel and her allies, the Free Democrats (FDP), did not gain one. The Social Democrat-Green coalition was out, but the center-right...
...Schr?der's embrace. Arithmetically, this is a fetching idea; ideologically, it is not. How would she harness her own Conservatives, the free-market FDP and the leftish environmentalists of the Green Party in a stable m?nage ? trois? What about a grand coalition of Social Democrats and Christian Democrats? Since Frau Merkel's supporters will have three more seats in the next parliament, she could still be Chancellor. Except that Schr?der thinks that, morally, he won the election because he picked up so many votes in the home stretch. So he will not serve under Merkel...