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...faith. After the London subway bombings in July 2005, the new Pope responded to the question of whether Islam was a "religion of peace"--as George W. Bush, among others, has always stressed-- by saying, "Certainly there are also elements that can favor peace." When he met with moderate German Muslims in the city of Cologne that August, Benedict delivered a fairly blunt warning that "those who instigate and plan these attacks evidently wish to poison our relations." In Rome, he removed Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, a relatively dovish Islam expert, as head of the Vatican's office on interreligious dialogue...
...opportunity for devotion to other matters. One effect of the proposal would be to render the extracurricular curricular, thus undermining the curriculum. For these reasons, the proposal strikes me as anti-academic, even anti-intellectual. PETER J. BURGARD Cambridge, Mass. Nov. 15, 2006 The writer is a Professor of German...
...Americanism is very much in vogue. In a Pew Global Attitudes Project poll released last June, favorable opinions of the United States among European citizens ranged from a dismally slim 23 percent among Spaniards, to a lackluster 56 percent in Great Britain. The last few weeks alone have seen German lawyers, buoyed by anti-American sentiment, file suit against recently resigned Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for committing war crimes under international law. But from where do such sentiments arise?One reason frequently bandied about is that, in autocratic states like Saudi Arabia, students are taught to resent the United...
...countryside, beyond the jurisdiction of the Beijing municipality's strict rules limiting each city household to a single dog, and limiting its size. While the regulations have existed in various forms for years, enforcement has been lax until recently. Many owners of oversize dogs had previously simply walked their German shepherds and golden retrievers under cover darkness. But a recent crackdown by Beijing police - ostensibly aimed at curbing rabies, a rash of attacks and other canine nuisances - has dog owners fearful that their dogs will be confiscated and possibly mistreated or even put down while in police custody. Police...
...Meanwhile, a German appeals court this week found a friend of three of the 9/11 hijackers guilty of being an accessory to "numerous murders," and sent the case back to a lower court for sentencing...