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...proper for Muslims to serve in a military force fighting other Muslims so long as they remain free to practice their faith. "If the leadership says another country is a threat, then the Muslim has the obligation to defend his country," says John Voll, an Islamic historian at Georgetown University, "... even if the other country is Islamic." But concerned over "the hatred that could come out," Representative Chet Edwards, a Texas Democrat whose district is near Fort Hood, told TIME he and Representative Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota and the lone Muslim in Congress, are seeking data...
...blow themselves and their enemies up to avoid being taken prisoner in Taiwan. Since then, suicide attacks have steadily been on the rise, surging more than 300% since 2001, leaving defense experts and government officials struggling to effectively counter their devastating spread. In his new book Dying for Heaven, Georgetown University religion professor Ariel Glucklich describes the religious, social and psychological motivations behind this disturbing phenomenon, the frightening ways it could affect the future of nuclear warfare and some surprising tactics to curb its growing influence. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
This finish put Radcliffe just seconds behind the Georgetown C Lightweight Boat, which crossed the line with a time...
While it is unlikely that the committee, led by Georgetown President John J. DeGioia, would deny Harvard reaccreditation, the process allows students to voice criticism and praise of the University. Philipp W. Grimm ’11, one of the four undergraduates—the fifth student was in graduate school—who attended the meeting, suggested that the low turnout was indicative of the Harvard administration’s inability to communicate successfully with the student body...
...Dallas was another thing altogether—Dallas is Dallas, and there is no way around it.” He continues: “He was the first coach of Harvard Debate for many years not to have been a Harvard debater (he went to Georgetown, then Harvard Law). When I first met him in the mid-1970s, he was partial to wearing one-piece pastel jumpsuits and had light orange hair down to his knees. Incongruously, when he spoke it was in one of the most pronounced West Texas drawls ever heard (he comes from Impact, Texas, outside...