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...Muhammad", notes that during the time of the First Crusades, many Westerners believed that Muslims were idol-worshippers (actually, the Prophet tore down the idols in Mecca). And Dante, in "The Divine Comedy," placed Muhammad in the Eighth Circle of Hell with the schismatics (even pagans such as Plato and Aristotle got relatively better treatment, with placement in the more scenic Limbo). Much more recently, the novelist Fay Weldon ("Affliction") wrote this about Islam: "The Koran is food for no-thought. It is not a poem on which a society can be safely or sensibly based...
...Hanssen's lawyers at Plato Cacheris' Washington firm, meanwhile, are mulling whether to go after fired defense team psychiatrist Aren Salerian on ethical violations for talking to the BBC, CBS and other media about the case, passing along embarrassing details such as Hanssen's alleged fascination with pornography, and Bonnie Hanssen's suspicions that her husband was spying as early as 1979. In addition to violating doctor-patient privilege, Hanssen's lawyers believe Salerian, as a member of the defense team, violated attorney-client privilege...
...Hanssen's lawyers at Plato Cacheris' Washington firm, meanwhile, are mulling whether to go after fired defense team psychiatrist Aren Salerian on ethical violations for talking to the BBC, CBS and other media about the case, passing along embarrassing details such as Hanssen's alleged fascination with pornography, and Bonnie Hanssen's suspicions that her husband was spying as early as 1979. In addition to violating doctor-patient privilege, Hanssen's lawyers believe Salerian, as a member of the defense team, violated attorney-client privilege...
...bathe a modest statue of founder Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Off the main quad, an orange steam shovel dips, lifts and pivots, grumbling to itself. Few students hear it. Gallaudet is the country's foremost college for deaf people. When Jim Haynes, at work nearby, instructs his philosophy class that "Plato argued that the concept behind this desk is more real than the physical thing itself," he does so manually, in crisp American Sign Language (ASL). His 12 students watch his hands intently, with the exception of a girl who is deaf and almost blind. She focuses on an interpreter...
...Plato Cacheris has vowed to keep his client from being executed. Has espionage always been a capital crime, punishable by death...