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...Muslim majority." Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a professor at George Washington University and one of the 38 signatories to the October letter to Benedict, says the Pope should deliver an "earnest expression of commonality"--even if it's only the widely accepted observation that Judaism, Christianity and Islam all claim descent from the biblical figure of Abraham. Father Richard McBrien, a theologian at Notre Dame, says that "if he doesn't bring up the issue of reciprocal respect for Christian minorities, he's not doing his job," but that he should avoid an absolutist, now-or-never stance...
Since then, the Muslim militias, which call themselves the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), have consolidated their claim to Mogadishu and expanded their control to include most of Somalia, particularly the fertile lands and strategic ports in the country's south. Meanwhile, the U.N.-backed transitional government is unraveling. Confined to the squalid town of Baidoa near the Ethiopian border, the government is dependent on foreign money and security and crippled by internal dissent and mass resignations...
...editors: Re: “The Uninformed Vote,” editorial, Nov. 15. You are correct in your claim that costs should always be taken into account when evaluating measures to reduce such things as greenhouse gas emissions. To not keep these considerations in mind is foolhardy. Nevertheless, I do not believe that your editorial accurately connects the reality that costs should be considered with your final conclusion that the emissions reduction ballot initiative is unwarranted. It is not necessarily the responsibility of the Environmental Action Committee (EAC) to come up with an accurate final cost for this project...
...editors: In an article on the Grant Street ash tree (“Cambridge Council Blasts Harvard in Tree Dispute,” news, Oct. 31), you quote Mary Power, Harvard’s Senior Dir.ector of Community Relations, rebutting neighbors’ claim that Harvard may bear responsibility for damage done to the buttress roots of the tree. Her claim is that decay had been detected back in 2004 and led Harvard’s “experts” to conclude that the tree was a safety hazard. We would like to respond to these somewhat vague...
...policy in Iraq depends largely on the ability of the elected government to forge a national unity compact that can end both the insurgency and the sectarian violence that continues to claim hundreds of casualties every week. And right now the signs of that government being able to achieve that goal are not looking good...