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There is age-old precedent for great artists to eventually abandon their genre and try to conquer something new. Their mastery of one art form fills them with confidence that their genius is transferable to other categories...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cornwell Abandons Forensics and Scarpetta in ‘At Risk’ | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

...seem extreme enough, Salih Kapusuz, from the governing Turkish party AKP expressed that the Pope “is going down in history in the same category as leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini.” And protesters in London carried signs reading, “Allah will conquer Rome...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: In Search of Islamic Lights | 9/19/2006 | See Source »

...possible that Benedict has misconstrued what Manuel meant about Islam's being spread by the sword. The ancient emperor may have been alluding not to sword's-edge conversion, but merely (if "merely" is the right word) to Islam's early intent to conquer the world, whose inhabitants would eventually come around to the true faith of their own accord. In that case, it?s probably accurate. That was the plan in the first generations after Mohammed, and that may be enough to scare anyone who thinks that it has been sustained since then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Forced Argument on Forced Conversions | 9/16/2006 | See Source »

...problem sets and exams are, well, Chem 30-esque. If you can survive the graduate-level work and the graduate-level grading (sorry, no breaks for undergrads), you’ll gain an amazing understanding of medicine at a molecular level.Don’t think you have to conquer the department’s dozen organic courses before exploring more discrete pastures: the physical chemistry requirement awaits. While Chem 60, “Foundations of Physical Chemistry,” sounds like it might satisfy the requirement much more easily than Chem 161, “Statistical Thermodynamics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chemistry | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...Will Boratmania conquer North America as it has Toronto? I hope so, since it's the most inventive, assaultive - and just plain funny comedy since South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. One clue to the movie's early power is the unease it has sparked among the presumed objects of its ridicule. The real Kazakhstan, perhaps taking a hint from Kurdistan's recent ad campaign promoting itself as "the other Iraq," is busily devising a publicity effort to counter Borat's supposed national slander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borat Takes Toronto | 9/13/2006 | See Source »

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