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...Harvard visiting professor of science and divinity last year. “But this article is an amazing example of the wrong way to relate science and religion.” According to Clayton, the study, published online on Jan. 23, combines religion with science in an unscientific manner. “There are sophisticated ways to link biological evolution with belief in God,” said Clayton. “But those arguments are philosophical or theological; they are not scientific arguments. The authors of this piece do both science and theology a disservice by shoe-horning...
...doll’s face he includes in the photograph affect the impression a viewer has of a particular spirit’s personality. Much of this information, while ostensibly suggesting the right idea about the spirit embodied within, is in some ways presented in a slightly manufactured manner. Ducharme, in focusing on those parts of the carvings that he finds most appealing, positions the dolls to reflect his feeling, a move that emphasizes the physical beauty of the dolls but fails to capture the spiritual significance that they hold. Though Ducharme undeniably captures—even magnifies?...
...novel displays Al Aswany's ability to portray in the most subtle, realistic manner the complex forces that shape such lives. With Chicago, he has produced a highly political diatribe against dictatorship, reflecting the rising calls for democracy in Egypt at the time he was writing it. The climax of the book unfolds with a scheme by Nagi, the medical student, and Salah, the professor, to stage a small protest during an official visit to the U.S. by the unnamed Egyptian President. Having been selected to give a short speech welcoming the President to Chicago, Salah intends to read...
...feudal manner of Bhutto’s succession lends further suspicion of the kind of democracy that she espoused. Her son, Bilawal Bhutto, is a 19-year-old Oxford student who has never lived in Pakistan. Yet he has been appointed heir to the Bhutto throne as the new chairman of the PPP. But since he is too young, his controversial father, Asif Zardari, will act as regent, making decisions while the chairman grows up. The actual top candidate for the forthcoming elections is another person, party loyalist Maqdoom Amin Fahim...
...press before full results became known from California. As a result, it said that Senator Hillary Clinton of New York had outperformed Senator Barack Obama of Illinois in yesterday's "Super Tuesday" contests. In fact, while Clinton won the major states of New York and California, the complex manner in which delegates are awarded means that the Clinton now has only a narrow lead in the total number of delegates. Additionally, Obama won 13 states yesterday, while Clinton won just nine...