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...ancient calendar of Egypt's Coptic Church, this is the Christmas season--and President Hosni Mubarak, a Muslim, had a present last week for his Christian community. He released Pope Shenouda III, 61, from a three-year- long house arrest and allowed him to resume his duties as spiritual leader of the Copts, the largest Christian group (6 million) in any Arab nation...
...Shenouda, eight bishops and 22 parish priests, accusing them of fomenting unrest. Since then, Shenouda has been forced to live at the 4th century Monastery of St. Bishoi, in the desert northwest of Cairo. In 1983 the government finally specified the charges against Shenouda. Among them: emphasizing a Coptic identity, urging churches to teach the old Coptic language, "encouraging hostility toward the regime" by asserting Copts' political grievances, and resisting legislation aimed at making Egypt more Islamic. Since then, however, Muslim and Christian enmity in Egypt has lessened, and Mubarak has been emphasizing a policy of national reconciliation. Shenouda...
...Fogg John Rosenfield terms it an "inconvenience," but says, "The new building is designed to work with or without the bridge." The Museum's security staff will supervise the operation, and Buckley says the Museum rented a van to move the faculty offices, library materials, and early Christian Coptic reliefs into the new building...
...architect's play with scale is apparent in the monumental entrance to the building, which rises 57 feet and leads into a foyer of heroic proportions. This light, open area includes an enormous staircase that rises to the top floor of the building. Alongside the stairway, early Christian Coptic reliefs are inset in the bands of color--these are the only pieces of art currently inside the Sackler...
...communicating in "computer language" is not difficult enough, computers at the Classics Department can not "talk back" in Greek, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, and even Coptic...