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...just 25, Ambra Medda, below, is the toast of the design world. She is responsible for helping lift the industry (once thought of as the illegitimate stepsister of art) to the same level of esteem that the art world has long enjoyed. In December 2005 Medda, along with Sam Keller, co-founded Design Miami/, a fair created to run in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach. It was a forum for collectors, dealers and experts at the highest level to come together to converse, shop and exhibit. What started out as an experiment became an immediate, roaring success?it raked...
...years of quietly, and then not-so-quietly, differentiating his approach to interfaith relations from Pope John Paul II's, the German Pope was sounding a lot like his predecessor. During Benedict's speech alongside Turkey's head of religious affairs Ali Bardakoglu, the Pope cited "mutual respect and esteem," "human and spiritual unity" and the common heritage of Islam and Christianity as ancestors of Abraham. In marked contrast to the nasty historical quote he'd cited in Regensburg, the Pope referred to a warm 11th century meeting of Pope Gregory VII and a Muslim prince. Still smarting from Regensburg...
...traditions disagree over whether Abraham’s first-born son was Ishmael, from whom Muhammad is said to have been descended, or if his first-born was Isaac, thought to be an ancestor of Jesus.“Within the Islamic tradition, Abraham is held in very high esteem,” says Ali Zaidi ’08, president of the Harvard Islamic Society. “There are big parts of the Holy Qu’ran devoted to talking about him and his journey.”Zaidi thinks that by focusing on Abraham himself, Ury?...
...Saturday to get a taste of what’s beyond the border—and what’s inside the Yard. The girls arrived on the Harvard campus for Global Girls Day, hosted by Strong Women, Strong Girls (SWSG), the all-female campus mentoring organization promoting self-esteem and leadership skills among girls in grades three to five. Each semester, SWSG—founded by Lindsay N. Hyde ’04—invites participating girls to Harvard for a day of workshops and a chance to mingle with undergraduate women. According to Events Coordinator Caitlin...
...history's dustbin, never dented the massive ego that had driven his success. When he died Thursday at 83, quietly in his Berlin apartment, on the 17th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wolf thought himself a victim of victor's justice that had denied him the esteem he deserved-and he took countless secrets to his grave...