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Though the university has no general covenant against CIA funding, its canons do require disclosure of any such grants and forbid outside contracts restricting free dissemination of faculty research. Therefore, Spence announced, after much soul searching, Harvard has accepted Safran's "preference for stepping down as director" after two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unhappy Times in Cambridge | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

They could very well lose it. Rumors surrounding the PlayStation 3's processor make it sound like the Ark of the Covenant wrought in silicon, and it may be much further along than Gates gives it credit for. "We look at delivering a quantum leap in technology, not just Xbox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft: Out of the X Box | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

Traditionally the Sunnis have been the second most important of Lebanon's 17 officially recognized religious groups. Under the "national covenant" worked out at the time of the country's independence in 1943, the Prime Minister is always a Sunni, the President a Maronite Christian and the speaker of parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: A Country's Slow Death | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

In Matthew's version, an unnamed angel brings the news to Joseph in a dream. Matthew delivers the important information straightforwardly enough--"fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost"--but he does so in a few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Behind The First Noel | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

For nearly half a century, few interfaith relationships have been sturdier than that between Jews and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Forged after the Holocaust and during the civil rights movement, the amity reached a high point in 1987, when a Presbyterian "study document" acknowledged the Jews' ongoing and legitimate covenant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interfaith Friendship Frayed | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

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