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Soldiers, guns, tanks and planes -- as a boy I had them all. While my friends were out playing football, I found what troops I could (many imaginary) and jaunted into the nearby woods on search-and-destroy missions. Now, after eleven years as a clergyman, I can say I learned quite a few good lessons from those military adventures, one of which is expressed in the words of the Apostle Paul: ''Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ . . . that you may please Him who hath called you to be a soldier...
With a balanced attack and a solid defensive effort, the Harvard women’s basketball team overcame a lackluster start to defeat Penn, 77-58, on Friday night at Lavietes Pavilion. Eleven Crimson players scored and the Harvard bench contributed 37 points as the Crimson defeated the Quakers for the second time in two weeks, sweeping the season series for the second straight year. “It was a team effort, a lot of fun,” co-captain Maureen McCaffery said. “Everybody came to play.” “The first...
...finger-in-the-socket guitar innovation, the new sound of the band, or at least what can be gleaned from their latest track, is comparatively conservative. The guitars are still distorted and the drums still heavy-hitting, but it seems that they have turned the volume down from eleven to about seven and a half. Let’s hope that this song is just an aberration, and that the rest of the album sounds as good as this video looks. - Adam J. Scheuer
...famous for introducing harmony and counterpoint to Arabic composition and including parts for Western symphonic instruments in his ensemble pieces. His career was tragically cut short by a cocaine overdose in 1923, but his productive years were enormously prolific: he left behind 30 musicals, 150 songs and eleven adwars (complex, multi-section, songs...
...differences. The most obvious centered on the Islamic taboo on images of the Prophet: devout Muslims consider any depiction of the Prophet blasphemous. But the Danish cartoons stirred outrage among moderate Muslims less because the cartoons depicted Muhammad than because of the way in which the Prophet was portrayed. "Eleven of the series were problematic but not outrageous," says Antoine Basbous, director of the Observatory of Arab Countries in Paris. The cartoon that showed Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, however, "was simply far beyond the pale. The direct link between him, and Islam, to terrorism acted like...