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...everywhere need to understand what really happened during WWII, that the world may take measures to assure that such events never happen again. As such, Japan (and every other country) needs textbooks that portray the events of the WWII period accurately, as well as a frank and open dialog about the horrors of WWII both among academics, and between academics and the general public. But the current government of Japan represents a constituency in which the majority of individuals were not of adult age during the Second World War. As such, although it is their duty to do everything...
...that are frozen in a Macau bank account at Washington's behest. The North Koreans even threatened to raise the stakes: After five days of stonewalling, North Korean delegate Kim Kye Gwan told reporters that in response to Washington's "carrot and stick" approach, the North would adopt a "dialog and shield" approach, adding ominously that by "shield," Pyongyang meant that it would "further improve our deterrent." That was a code word for one thing that no one wants to see: a second, and likely bigger, nuclear test...
...then it swelled once more. Pope Benedict seemed to revive it last week, with the help of an old -- make that a very old -- friend. He cited Manuel II Paleologus, the emperor of Byzantium from 1391 to 1425, who in a ?dialog? with ?an educated Persian? said: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.? Benedict then paraphrased Manuel's complaint using the explicit phrase ?forced conversion...
...crusading spirit," says Charles Barber, an art historian and expert in the Byzantine empire at the University of Notre Dame. "Manuel shows a real familiarity with Islamic texts and Islamic culture, but as seen through the lens of a people who are essentially facing annihilation.? Thus, says Barber, the ?dialog? between the emperor and the ?educated Persian? (which we have only by the emperor's recounting) would fall into a well-established genre of ?controversy literature...
...biomedical engineering at the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, says, “I am convinced that the work Brian is doing is very important both for the creative expression that Brian’s work represents itself, and more generally as an expression of the very rich dialog that is happening today at the art-science interface.”Bill Brieher, a researcher at the Mitchison Lab at HMS, concurs with Edwards. “I think that it’s really excellent that he’s getting coverage and that Harvard did this...