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Steve Weaver is a Christian aid worker. The Pennsylvania Mennonite is an emergency-management consultant for the Church World Service, with which he will shortly cross the border between Jordan and Iraq. But unlike some of his fellow believers in that great aid caravan, Weaver, 33, will not preach as he goes. "Mixing proselytizing with humanitarian work is not appropriate at any time," he says. And now "it will confirm people's suspicions that this [war] was about Christians vs. Muslims--and the Christians...
...father with his two young sons and another youth--were killed. Chief among the dead that Friday was Sheik Abdullah Azzam, 48. It was the second attempt on his life. Earlier in 1989 a bomb was planted beneath the pulpit of a mosque where he was supposed to preach and pray, but the bomb did not explode. Azzam, a Palestinian, was the most prominent advocate of a jihad to save the Muslim lands from infidel encroachment. Thanks in part to his writings and diatribes, Islamic fighters from around the world traveled to Afghanistan to defeat the Soviet Union...
...Education means nothing if we your teachers cannot stand with you in solidarity and practice what we preach,” said Lecturer in History and Literature Tim McCarthy ’93, who skipped teaching English 176a: “American Protest Literature” with Associate Professor of English John Stauffer yesterday. “America is what it is because of those who have been encouraged to challenge the status...
Although RUS has not discussed whether the Corporation members should resign from Augusta or from Harvard, as NCWO suggests, Watson said she did think the membership “makes Harvard look bad, because they’re not practicing what they preach...
...ensure that Harvard undergrads, some of whom preach intolerance under the guise of traditional morality, graduate from this university with an appreciation for contemporary morality? In my fantasy, I envision a Core curriculum that includes a mandatory class on the basic issues of human rights and tolerance for others. As the administration continues its review of the Core curriculum, we are presented with an unprecedented opportunity to turn fantasy into reality. If curricular inertia proves too much to overcome, what are our alternatives...