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...Other experts in Paris laid their own cultural claims. "I regard him first and foremost as an Arab thinker," said Muslim Professor Abderrahmane Badawi of Kuwait University. Huseyin Atay, who teaches religious thought in Saudi Arabia, agreed: "If you didn't know he was Jewish, you might easily make the mistake of saying that a Muslim was writing." Israeli Historian Shlomo Pines said, "Maimonides is the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages and quite possibly of all time...
Levine said the Third World art courses were added "to make the history of art at Harvard reflect the history of art, not the history of Western art." In addition, Levine said, Harvard is considered to have the nation's foremost program in Near Eastern and Far Eastern-art, and the new survey courses will allow students to study "what they can only study at Harvard...
...Shepard's voice has often seemed querulous or cruelly funny. Even as he was attracting an avid following as perhaps America's foremost active playwright, critics sensed in his plays a compulsive urge toward violence, a lack of compassion, a reveling in the bizarre. His comic scenes made viewers wonder whether he was laughing with or at his characters. His work has shifted from expressionist flights of fancy to a kind of grim, weird naturalism and has tended more and more to portray families as the poisoned wellspring of human evil. He has brought to life the same fumbling, feckless...
DIED. Robert Graves, 90, idiosyncratic, prolific British man of letters who considered himself foremost a poet but who was also a biographer, critic, translator and editor and is probably best known as a historical novelist, most memorably for I, Claudius (1934), a rich reconstruction of Roman life that became a hit mini-series in 1976; in Deia, Majorca, Spain. Graves began publishing his precise, sensuous lyrics while an officer in World War I, during which he was seriously wounded; he recounted that part of his life in the popular autobiography Goodbye to All That (1929). Among his most controversial works...
...petition the human rights court for a ruling. Schmidt triumphed, thanks in part to a number of amicus briefs filed on behalf of groups that support freedom of the press, including one by noted Washington Lawyer Leonard Marks and another by Floyd Abrams, one of the U.S.'s foremost experts on press freedom. Nonetheless, President Monge has pointed out, "the opinion of the court is not binding," and in fact he is correct. The human rights court has no enforcement mechanism. Says Marks: "There are no troops to back...