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...This is the great challenge of our time, the storm in which we fly. History is once again witnessing a great clash." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, comparing the war on terror to the battle against Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union, in a commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy...
Although Christianity is a focal point in my life, I do not possess a red phone to the Almighty, and neither does Bush. It is tragic that his simplistic way of thinking does not allow for doubt or reflection and precludes the consideration of religious and cultural values that clash with his personal world view. ANN HARGROVE Leesburg...
...endemic to Islam and easily spill over into fanaticism. For others, Islamic terrorism is the most extreme expression of an age-old conflict between Islam and the West. In a 1990 essay, Princeton historian Bernard Lewis wrote that Muslim anger against the West "is no less than a clash of civilizations-the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the worldwide expansion of both." The phrase "clash of civilizations," later popularized by Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington, is now regularly invoked by political analysts to explain images...
...cadre of researchers at Harvard and its peers says the new regulations create a culture clash, closing science’s vital channels of openness in both directions: talented researchers are no longer able to contribute, and important information can no longer be shared for further progress...
...while students go online to casts their ballots today, council members continue to clash over the merits of the fee increase, as well as the manner in which each side has presented its arguments...