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...Benedict has been seen as both stumbling block and catalyst in the search to improve relations between Christians and Muslims. His Septempber 2006 lecture at Regensberg University in Germany on the relationship between faith and reason, and how it might explain religiously inspired violence, included an offensive historical reference to the Prophet Muhammed. But after initial Muslim anger at his remarks cooled - and the Pope made a conciliatory visit to the Blue Mosque in Istanbul - there have been signs of a productive Catholic-Islam dialogue taking shape. Prominent Muslim and Christian clerics have exchanged messages expressing a mutual desire...
...lzer's own route to the ringmaster's role tonight is somewhat surprising. Born nearby, the son of solid farming stock, he was always more interested in fashion than in fertilizer. "I can't explain this. There was no one in my family like this. I have checked back several generations," he says. S�lzer's r�sum� includes four years with hair-care giant Schwarzkopf. "Hair care is very close to fashion," says S�lzer, the father of four sons. "For women, it is the only thing you can change. I would not say I was fashionable...
...It’s hard to explain to people in doubt that joining ROTC is a personal decision,” Jessica D. Williams ’08 says. “They think you don’t have any agency, or that you’re being lied to, that you’re doing it against your will...
...conversation with Makiya, who appears only as a nameless Iraqi expatriate, in two separate New York Times Magazine articles about his own position on the war. It is a memory he keeps returning to, as if by describing his impression of Makiya’s idealism he can finally explain his own. Ignatieff made a splash in early 2003 by coming out as a liberal supporter of the war. He wasn’t the only prominent pro-war intellectual at Harvard, but he stood out among those like Harvard Kennedy School professor Ashton B. Carter and neo-conservative Government...
...history of bipartisan voting to strengthen his Republican kinship ties? Or will his attempts to woo the right-wingers of his party alienate Independents? McCain’s recent flip-flop on torture suggests that he is trying to attract the right-wing Republican vote. That seems to explain why McCain, one of the nation’s staunchest opponents of torture, voted not to pass an anti-torture bill.This came as a surprise for those who know of McCain’s long battle with the Bush administration and members of his own party...