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...show identification. "The Americans were sitting there, egging on the Iraqis," says the official. "They sat on the veranda saying things like 'Good job, keep at it.'" Then the Iraqis ransacked the place, seizing weapons, ripping down pictures of Chalabi's father, even confiscating a copy of the Koran. An Iraqi officer smashed a framed photograph of the Pentagon's favorite exile himself. "Chalabi is finished," he said...
...central questions that have perplexed and confounded humankind throughout the ages” in an intensive three-quarter sequence. Both programs include works from great writers and thinkers such as Shakespeare and Descartes, while Stanford’s program has a more international bend, including texts such as the Koran, Bhagavad Gita and the Ramayana. The programs also put a premium on teaching quality by incorporating small weekly seminars with faculty. Harvard should work to develop a similar program...
...months after the attacks on New York City and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, several key Washington figures were invited to dinner at the Vice President's residence. The star turn was by an elderly professor from Princeton, whom Dick Cheney asked to conduct a seminar on Islam, the Koran and Muslim attitudes toward Americans. The teacher was Bernard Lewis, now 87, who first studied the Islamic world in his native London in the 1930s and--with a break spent serving in British intelligence during World War II--has been engaged in a life of scholarship ever since...
...full-time for al-Muhajiroun, a group that endorses the goals of Osama bin Laden. Well-spoken, highly intelligent, he says he doesn't know the people arrested last week: "Maybe they have the same ideas as us, but every Muslim would." He says it is contrary to the Koran for British Muslims to bomb in Britain, but foreigners may do so. "It's allowed in Islam. Even if my own family was killed, I would say it's the will of Allah." His is a tiny movement with a gift for self-promotion, but it has material to work...
...Koran does speak in an indirect way about cloning,” Khan said after reading several passages from the Koran on human embryonic development...