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Others disagree. “Through disputable choices like the altered general disposition and the change of the furniture, the new Woodberry Room will not have much in common with Aalto’s original creation,” four GSD professors wrote to Cline in a July 7 letter. Those professors included the directors of the GSD’s master in architecture and doctoral programs...
...even if he has had to take some hard knocks, Middle East--style. One of his first ventures beyond Egypt was in strife-torn Algeria, where his successful 2001 bid for a cell-phone license turned out to be twice that of his nearest competitor, which led to the creation of an operator called Djezzy. Soon he had turned Orascom's $400 million investment into an asset worth some $4 billion. Later, in 2003, it was the same story in Iraq: Orascom set up the country's first cell-phone network, IraQna, after the fall of Baghdad. He invested...
...mystery deepens because Israel is not unique. Its creation is rooted in the decay of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and Russian empires at the end of the 19th century and in the desire of persecuted peoples for homelands. The Jews of Eastern Europe were not the only ones who dreamed such dreams; so did Serbs, Czechs, Poles, Croats and others. As the empires were carved up at the end of two world wars, new nations took shape. The state of Israel, to be sure, was created on someone else's land (whose is a matter of debate...
...Middle Ages, theology was called the queen of the sciences. It asks a set of questions about human existence, about why we're here and how we should be in relationship with our neighbors and with the divine. And science, in this more traditional understanding, is about looking at creation and trying to understand how it functions...
...Collins has more in mind than being a role model. The last celebrity scientist to suggest a middle path in the creation wars was Stephen Jay Gould, who argued that science and faith could coexist because they are "nonoverlapping" domains with no common ground on which to clash. Yet Collins insists on overlaying and intertwining them. He starts from a very Gouldian premise - "Science is the only reliable way to understand the natural world [but] is powerless to answer questions such as 'what is the meaning of human existence'" - but he tracks it to a different conclusion. "We need...