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...campus, such as members of student publications, political organizations, cultural organizations, and arts organizations, according to Ramaswamy. All meetings will be open to all undergraduates. “We want to make this as open to everyone as possible,” Ramaswamy said. Ramaswamy, Baxter, and Beck intend to use their roles as advisory group members to voice student opinions as they are relayed to them, according to Ramaswamy. “If students have a lot to say, then we’ll have a lot to say to the search committee,” he said. Because...
...coastal city of Trebizond, where in February Father Andrea Santoro was killed by a young Muslim man in an apparently religiously motivated attack. Two other Catholic clergy members have been the victims of attacks in Turkey over the past several months. The Vatican said the Pope did not intend the remarks - which he made during a speech in Germany on Tuesday - to offend anyone. Benedict didn't explicitly endorse the statement, which recounted a conversation between 14th century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and a Persian scholar on the truths of Christianity and Islam. "The emperor comes to speak...
...raised by an unprepared, overworked, unhealthy, and neglectful mother, an abortion would allow the woman to postpone pregnancy until she first attains the social resources she needs to provide a healthy upbringing for her children. This reasoning applies to 70 percent of abortion-seekers, who say that they do intend to have children in the future. In fact, the human body will often make the same choice on its own, albeit for purely physical reasons—if a woman is malnourished, the uterine lining will often reabsorb the embryo instead of letting it develop, sensing that the body does...
...anniversary of Sept. 11 is a good time to contemplate what choice we’ve made, and what choice we intend to make...
...ever in China, figuring out exactly what senior Communist Party cadres intend by such actions is a frustrating and sometimes fruitless exercise. China watchers remain divided about just how centrally coordinated such actions are. In the case of Chen Guangcheng, for example, it is unclear whether his sentence was solely decided by local officials or sanctioned - even tacitly - by Beijing. Some speculate that China's President Hu Jintao is putting on a show of strength to bolster his relatively weak grip on the reins of power; the crackdown is seen as clearing the decks of potentially embarrassing dissenters before Beijing...