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JOHN L. ESPOSITO Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and author of Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam...
...opening two contests this year, Holy Cross (1-1, 1-1 Patriot) has posted a whopping total of 62 points—42 of them coming in last week’s victory over Georgetown...
...recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing his Apostles only from among men ..." That argument would seem weakened in light of the "new" Magdalene, whom the Pope himself has acknowledged by the once unfashionable title "Apostle to the Apostles." Chester Gillis, chair of the department of theology at Georgetown University, says conventional Catholics still feel that Mary Magdalene's absence from many biblical scenes involving the male disciples, and specifically from the ordination-like ritual of the Last Supper, rule her out as a priest precedent. Gillis agrees, however, that her recalibration "certainly makes a case for a stronger...
...years old. But the written word--and therefore the possibility of reading--has probably been around for no more than 5,000 years. "That's not long enough for our brains to evolve certain regions for just that purpose," says Guinevere Eden, a professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University in Washington, who also uses brain scans to study reading. "We're probably using a whole network of areas in the brain that were originally designed to do something slightly different." As Eden puts it, the brain is moonlighting--and some of the resulting glitches have yet to be ironed...
Under his leadership, the court has struck down 28 laws in six years--a considerable number, notes Georgetown law professor Neal Katyal, when you consider that in the nation's first 200 years the court struck down only 127. Among these overturned laws was one making it illegal to have a gun within 1,000 ft. of a school zone and others allowing states to be sued for discrimination on the basis of age, disability and other criteria. To Rehnquist's critics, the large number of overturned laws made it appear that he was practicing the same judicial activism...