Word: interments
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...19th century miniature ivory stupa (Buddhist shrine) or a 17th century collapsible model of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The museum has set up an altar for members of a Hindu sect wishing to venerate one of the manuscripts on display. James Allan, director of the Ashmolean Inter-Faith Exhibition Service, which organized the show, welcomed their visits: "The tradition [of pilgrimage] becomes alive, not just theoretical." tel: (44-1865) 278000; www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk
...DIED. DR. ZAKI BADAWI, 84, founder and principal of Britain's Muslim College and the country's most respected Islamic scholar; in London. Egyptian-born Badawi pioneered inter-faith dialogue in the U.K. and promoted a British form of Islam compatible with Western life. A critic of terrorism and defender of women's rights, Badawi would be remembered, in the words of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as "a wonderful mix of spirituality and practicality...
...Mark Souder, a Republican U.S. Congressman from Indiana and a member of the Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary Group, predicts the principal consequence of the Conservatives' ascent to power will be a new "tone of mutual respect" between the two capitals. Harper's Arctic admonition could rekindle the old doubts, but improvements in the U.S.-Canada relationship will probably come through a mutual recognition of the new "geopolitical realities" in an energy-hungry and security-conscious North America, says Professor John Thompson, who teaches Canadian studies at North Carolina's Duke University. And no one is better positioned to exploit...
...Percentage of that $450 billion that was spent in the U.S.* *From the Inter-American Development Bank...
...blood out of the way outside of the show.”In an episode where “tail” puns—“Our tale is almost done”—served as a staple diversionary device, a little bit of inter-group tension might have served to liven things up a bit. But Martinez may soon have other opportunities to duke it out on the small screen.Martinez has been contacted by “Beauty and the Geek,” a WB reality series in which “nerdy?...