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...Home has been a moveable feast. Still, Gurr retains a strong sense of "honoring the domestic." "It's not just to do with the man I live with," he says of his home life. "Part of it is an antidote to the wildness of the imagination." Gurr says he was three-quarters of the way through writing the memoir before he realized its hidden purpose: "To put a bit of steel back into the language of ideas that have come to be seen as soft, nebulous, weak," he says, before pausing. "All the things that have been stripped...
...more extreme because many of them are in tropical or near-tropical locations. But the long-term trend is clear: as the middle class in emerging markets grows and prospers, nutritional habits will continue to change?and that should provide a tantalizing menu of investment opportunities on which to feast...
...Monkeys and humans have long coexisted in India, where Hindus consider the primates sacred. In the ancient Sanskrit epic the Ramayana, the monkey god Hanuman symbolizes wisdom, devotion, righteousness and strength. Most days, but especially every Tuesday, devout Hindus feed Delhi's monkeys a feast of bananas and peanuts...
...Another Turkish leader compared the German Pontiff to Hitler and Mussolini, calling him a "poor thing" with a "dark mentality." Through a spokesman, the Pope said he did not mean to endorse any harsh criticism of Islam. The trip to Ankara and Istanbul, where Benedict hopes to celebrate the Feast of St. Andrew on Nov. 30 with the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, is now a definite maybe. It's unlikely that Benedict imagined the situation unraveling so rapidly when he sat down to hammer out his academic discourse, which argues that Islam lacks the Christian concept of a rational...
...final plans were being made for the papal trip to Turkey, where he is scheduled to meet with the country's top political and religious authorities. Benedict's initial motivation for the visit is to celebrate with Orthodox Christians the Feast of St. Andrew, on Nov. 30. in Istanbul, which some Christians still call Constantinople. Most expect that he would also speak about the tensions between the Islamic world and the West on the visit. Assuming the trip goes through, one wonders if there will be more careful attention to how his message may be interpreted by Muslims. Still, Padovese...