Word: interestingness
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Getting to Know God Robert Wright's article, "Decoding God's Changing Moods," on historical interactions among monotheistic religions is interesting [June 15]. But when he refers to "the most dangerous of intra-Abrahamic fault lines, the one between Muslims and Jews," he is wrong. The attacks in New York...
The Pendulum Swings The Islamic revival in Bosnia is classic human nature [June 15]. The Bosnian Muslims had a mainly secular sense of identity but were nevertheless brutalized during the Balkan civil war due to their religion, for there is little else to differentiate Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks. In reaction...
"I think one of the most interesting things about Robert McNamara was that he was someone who was a larger-than-life figure in the early '60s, who then continued to learn and grow and change in all kinds of ways," said David T. Ellwood '75, dean of the Kennedy...
"In the Kennedy years, he was almost perfect in his hard work and insightfulness. He was very, very sharp...but he lacked that human touch, he didn't acknowledge things that didn't come out of numerical displays," said Paul M. Doty, a member of President Kennedy's Science Advisory...
That alone would make the timing of the arrests interesting, at minimum. But they also come just weeks after Rio Tinto ultimately snubbed what would have been China's largest foreign direct investment ever: a planned $19.5 billion stake that Chinalco - Beijing's largest state-owned aluminum company - had offered...