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Selections from Harvard's diverse religious traditions follow, with seniors reading from the Bible in Hebrew, the Upanishads in Sanskrit, the Koran in Arabic and the New Testament in English...
...Maximus or Commodus: he was all warrior, all tyrant. A hard-drinking perfectionist, he got into brawls with villagers on one location and laid such waste to his rented villa in Morocco that the caretaker protested to Scott, saying "He must leave! He is violating every tenet of the Koran!" Crowe questioned every aspect of the evolving script and strode off the set when he did not get answers. Says a DreamWorks exec: "Russell was not well behaved. He tried to rewrite the entire script on the spot. You know the big line in the trailer, 'In this life...
Frequently referencing both his own songs and the Koran, Islam described his youth as a rock star, his discovery of Islam, and how conversion has changed his life...
...good son, the child who always smiled, who never hurt anyone. "He began reading the Koran by himself," Diallo recalls proudly. And always said his prayers, bowing toward Mecca the prescribed five times a day. Perhaps made shy by a youthful stutter, Amadou nevertheless chose to emulate the adventurous example of his father Saikou, a man who had risen from street vendor in West Africa and dodged coups d'etat and other political turmoil to become a businessman with interests in Guinea, Togo, Liberia, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. Amadou had seen those troubles and been to those places...
Gandhi sought God, not orthodoxy. His daily prayers mixed traditional Hindu venerations with Buddhist chants, readings from the Koran, a Zoroastrian verse or two and the Christian hymn Lead, Kindly Light. That eclecticism reflected his great tolerance for all religions, one of his holiest--and least respected--precepts. "Truth," he preached, "is God," but he could never persuade India's warring religious sects to agree. His spiritual mentors were just as broad--Jesus, Buddha, Socrates, his mother. Gandhi later said his formative childhood impression was of her "saintliness" and her devout asceticism infused his soul. The family's brand...