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...Singapore's tiny island and infrastructure will support the increased foreign population and how that will impact transportation, taxes, traffic, housing and schooling for the locals," says Singaporean Cheryl Liew, a consultant for an executive-search firm. One of those locals, Lance Lim, summed up this skepticism in a letter to the local Straits Times newspaper published in March. "We need to seriously consider whether our country is prepared to sacrifice its national identity for supposed economic growth," Lim wrote...
...Ratzinger, now Pope, has revisited it in detail--and in print. When a papal confidant told the Catholic News Service that it was "one of the reasons" Benedict had undertaken his entire two-volume Jesus of Nazareth project, the somewhat puzzled but delighted professor called it "an academic love letter...
...American Jewish Committee, says it is in some ways "the full maturation of the modern Catholic-Jewish encounter." But perhaps it may mature further still. Asked what he would like to write next, Neusner says, "I'd like to do a book with the Pope about Paul," whose letter, Romans, contains verses that have long bedeviled Jewish-Christian relations. He is half-joking. But what if the Pope said yes? What new wonder might emerge when two smart men agree to disagree but then keep talking...
...overwhelming success, judging from rave reviews from many Quincy House students, especially when compared with that of the Kirshners, who were notably absent from the dining hall and rarely sponsored events.The contrast between the performance of the Gehrkes and Kirshners as house masters—highlighted in a letter signed by 77 Quincy House seniors sent to the Kirshners in April and recently obtained by The Crimson—demonstrates the power that masters wield in forming a house’s social fabric. It also raises fundamental questions about the way Harvard’s housing system...
...Harvard, “we tend to have this categorical, black-letter-law approach,” says Dale, the Medical School research dean...