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Professor Samuel P. Huntington, a renowned political scientist who gained fame for his controversial theory of international conflict, died Wednesday, according to a University press release...
...Huntington is best known for his "clash of civilizations" theory, which attributes warfare between nations to underlying religious and cultural differences. The theory caused a stir when Huntington first published it in 1993 but later gained support, particularly after the Sept. 11 attacks, which some pointed to as evidence of the cultural strife predicted by Huntington's theory...
...require strong prerequisite credentials like those demanded by the military academies and be apolitical and headed by a person of great prestige who is neither a politician nor a military officer. What better way for taxpayers to spend their money than on training talented future leaders? Frank R. Nataro, HUNTINGTON...
...Middle East and The Crisis of Islam Holy War and Unholy Terror seek to explain the roots of extremism. His take on these subjects has often been controversial; some scholars accuse him of being needlessly alarmist about the "clash of civilizations" - a term he coined before Samuel Huntington's book. Lewis's latest book Islam: The Religion and the People, (Wharton School of Publishing) co-authored with Buntzie Ellis Churchill, is a useful primer for those who know little or nothing about the religion and its adherents. TIME's World Editor Bobby Ghosh recently interviewed Lewis, 92, over the phone...
Daley, who is also a professor at Harvard Medical School, said that he and his colleagues created 20 stable iPS cell lines from patients with genetic diseases including Parkinson's, Huntington's, Down Syndrome, juvenile-onset Type I diabetes, and two types of muscular dystrophy...