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...participate in human rights work, according to Cynthia J. Mesh, assistant director of UCHRS. The capstone event will be tomorrow’s ‘Sixty Years of Human Rights: The Idea and the Reality’ panel featuring University Professor Amartya Sen and Medical School Professor Paul Farmer, which is moderated by University President Drew G. Faust. “As Harvard students, we’re in a privileged position to act on behalf of human rights,” said Quinnie Lin ’09, co-president of HCHRA. “The light installation...
...President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz were conspicuously absent from Shinseki's retirement ceremony...
...Iraq war, to head the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The move shows Obama's deep concern for the needs of wounded veterans. More poignantly, it marks a comeback for an Army officer who was spurned by his superiors, then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, for warning that the war's post-invasion phase would require many more troops than the Pentagon believed...
...from his life. Recently we've recovered a nice little memo of his to a fellow bishop on behalf of a plaintiff, telling that bishop to get his sticky fingers off this guy's property. The plaintiff whose side he takes is a Jew, and Augustine even quotes St. Paul to the effect of not creating a scandal "in front of the Jews." But more important is the theological 180-degree turn Augustine does between 395 and 398. He has moved from demeaning Jews and disparaging Judaism to becoming the only theologian of his era to make them an important...
...agreed. Augustine, in the course of arguing for Christ's incarnation - this intimate relationship between divinity and humanity - explicitly parallels it to God's relationship with the Jews. He writes that Catholics and Jews stand as one community over against pagans and heretics, that Jesus and his apostles, including Paul, lived as Torah-observant Jews for the whole of their lives. And he urges that God himself would punish any king who tried to interfere with the Jews' practice of Judaism. These ideas preserved space for Jewishness in Christian culture, space that in the much more toxic culture...