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...about the West, but it's also about the illusion of the West. Is the idea that all the men were platonically macho and never emotionally entangled one of those illusions? I write stories that turn out to be set in the West because the West has been the context of my life, but I don't think about things like that. I think about the characters, [but] I have often pointed out that the shoot-'em-up, bang-bang, fast-draw West is a Hollywood invention. It didn't exist. And anybody who knows much about the famous characters...
...other radical Islamist competitor for the mantle of U.S. Public Enemy No. 1 has lately been Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has garnered attention for his bristling hostility to the U.S. and his threat to wipe out Israel, all in the context of his defiance of the West over Iran's nuclear program. The attention paid to Zarqawi and Ahmadinejad has moved Bin Laden to the margins of Western news coverage, but his strategy for building al-Qaeda, as the single umbrella organization of global jihad, with himself as its "Sheikh," has been premised on his being recognized among...
...Memorial Church on Monday, soulfully greeting the multicultural audience gathered for a commemoration of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Unlike in years past, leaders of seven different religious and ethnic campus groups were invited to speak about the meaning of Martin Luther King Day in the context of their own cultural concerns. “The idea is to involve a portion of the Harvard community that in the past has not been involved,” said Om L. Lala ’06, the chair of the Harvard College Interfaith Council, which co-sponsored the event...
Gomes teaches two mainly-undergraduate courses. In Religion 42, “The Christian Bible and Its Interpretations,” he relates 2,000 years of Christian experience to his students while putting the Bible in context of current secular issues, like stem cell research...
...intelligent design into the scientific curriculum would mean that students get a lousy education,” Hanken said. Hanken said that if intelligent design is discussed in a non-scientific manner, it could be acceptable in the classroom. “If you discuss intelligent design in the context of how science exists in a larger societal context, especially along with other non-scientific alternatives to evolution, that’s a different thing,” Hanken said. Hall said that Harvard would benefit from a course that could explore intelligent design in a non-scientific setting...