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...wanted to stir up the pot - and have it plenty warm just in time to deliver a more elaborate sermon on Islam and the West while he is visiting a nation with some 70 million Muslims. "It may be like his predecessor," says the Vatican source, referring to John Paul II's knack for staying relevant in world affairs. "He wants to create a positive tension. Then it becomes a political trip as well." At this point, though, the real political feat will be getting to Turkey in the first place...
...signature buzzwords of John Paul II's papacy was "dialogue." So committed was he to seeking common ground with leaders of different faiths that he all but institutionalized the process in 1986 by hosting the first of a series of interreligious gatherings in the medieval Italian town of Assisi. It was well known in Vatican circles that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, among the Pope's most loyal lieutenants, was lukewarm to the Assisi enthusiasm. The German Cardinal was, after all, among the world's most rigorous (and traditionalist) Catholic theologians, skeptical of any attempt to water down differences among faiths. Still...
...Casey. “Before, because there were fewer people applying at a time, people who were reviewing applications could actually look into who the person was. Now students are just going to become a list of statistics.” But a college adviser at The Key School, Paul M. Stoneham, said he does not believe Harvard will be hurt in the long run. “There are enough wonderful minds that don’t get into Harvard,” Stoneham said. “The quality of the student body isn’t going...
...argue it wasn't hard to foresee - the Vatican's attempts at damage control may be a little too late. The speech has already elicited harsh denunciations from political and religious leaders from Pakistan and Iraq to Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. In Turkey, the home of Pope John Paul II's would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca, the comments struck such a nerve that they managed to erase old distinctions between conservative Muslims, including leaders of the ruling Justice and Development party, and secular nationalists in the country. Several Turkish MPs have demanded an apology. The head of Turkey...
...advising is negligible at best and that a significant effort has to be made to get attention from anyone in the department. The head of ESPP is Pfoho Housmaster Jim McCarthy, study break enforcer and science advisor to Al Gore’s own Inconvenient Truth. Other professors include Paul Hoffman and Daniel Schrag, the two leading proponents of the “Snowball Earth” hypothesis, which proposes that an ice age that took place in the Neoproterozoic was so severe that the Earth’s oceans froze over completely. According to some, it could happen again...