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...During its annual Islam Awareness Week last month, the Harvard Islamic Society offered students a taste of the Islamic tradition by having a member proclaim the adhan on Widener steps every day at 1 p.m., a time when the Yard is bustling with students. From the time of its earliest recitation, the adhan has asked Muslims to leave behind everything and hasten to prayer, so that they may join their companions in worship. The adhan then symbolizes an integral element of the Islamic lifestyle, and to study Islamic theology and practice without recourse to this recitation is to do injustice...
...essay, Nancy Gibbs posited that politicians will soon need to make firm decisions regarding reproductive technologies and embryonic stem cells [March 10]. But she cited the work of professors who argue that, as Gibbs put it, "the embryo is a whole, living member of the human species in its earliest stage of development, not just a potential one or a part of one." This leaves out one critical factor: a mother's uterus is needed to complete gestation. Until we recognize the mother as the vital, key component to creating new life, we will continue to make egregious errors...
...While Christians in those areas trace their roots to the earliest centuries of the faith, the Catholics in Saudi Arabia are mostly migrant workers. And the restrictions on any outward manifestation of their religious beliefs have been particularly severe. The celebration of non-Muslim holidays is forbidden, as is the wearing of crucifixes and other religious symbols...
...earliest students could see their grades would be the day after finals period, said McCarty, but “none of this is set in stone...
...artist. Though she still focuses on the small, intimate objects lying around her house, “There has been a move from a certain kind of conceptual rigor to a certain kind of poetics,” says Molesworth. “[Davey’s] earliest work, the ‘Copperheads,’ uses the camera to look very closely at something that’s traditionally not seen in a very rigorous way through the use of image and grid, while her most recent work is much more poetic, loose, and playful...