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...proposals from top American universities, Alwaleed formed a selection committee a year ago to choose which schools would receive donations. Originally, he said, he planned on creating only one center. But after the committee spent a year studying and visiting colleges, he decided to give to both Harvard and Georgetown. Georgetown received a $20 million grant on the same day as Harvard. “I want to bridge the gaps between the East and the West between Christianity and Islam and between Saudi Arabia and the United States,” he said. “Who is better...
...endowed professorship at the Divinity School, back to the UAE after the Abu Dhabi-based Zayed Center came under fire for promoting an anti-Semitic agenda. In an interview with the Washington Post, Alwaleed said he hopes the donation to Harvard and a second $20 million gift to Georgetown also announced yesterday will help connect the Middle East with the West. “As you know,” the prince told the Post, “since the 9/11 events, the image of Islam has been tarnished in the West.” In addition...
Early Christian art, notes Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, a religious-art specialist affiliated with Washington's Georgetown University, sometimes omitted Joseph from the Nativity. When present, "he's either disinterested or separate, a doddering old man with a bald head or gray beard, a stock character," she says. The Rev. Michael Morris, an expert in art and Catholic theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., says Joseph was occasionally painted sleeping through the event. This may have been a nod to his prophetic dreams, but Morris notes that even among Catholic clergy today, "if someone says he's going...
Self-selecting groups often perpetuate their own shortcomings when picking their new members. Thankfully, in selecting Patricia A. King to be its newest member, the Harvard Corporation, wisely avoided this common pitfall. King—a Georgetown professor and the first African-American woman to serve on the Corporation—will bring much needed diversity to the economics and business dominated body...
...They got exactly that with the selection on Sunday of Patricia A. King, a law professor at Georgetown and an expert in biomedical ethics, who also happens to be black and female. Several professors who have been critical of the Corporation and University President Lawrence H. Summers said in interviews this week that they were pleased with the choice of the academic King...