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...decline of Muslim power, jihadists have dreamed of reconquering the Christian West. Islam has an expansion policy, which is that every Muslim has a duty to spread the religion in the name of the Prophet. Criticized as a myopic hard-liner when elected, Benedict might become the Pope of progress in Christian-Muslim relations. Veith Ruehling Augsburg, Germany...
Stern and Viglione say that the collaborative approach has been both exhilirating and fruitful, but Palmer thinks that the lack of an authoritative vision may have muddied the production’s progress. “There are many things that you literally cannot achieve sitting around a table trying not to offend anybody,” she says...
...need for progress on the preliminary report of the Task Force on General Education becomes increasingly urgent, professors’ resistance to another prolonged debate over the issue of evaluations is understandable. But at the least, some professor should have opened the legislation to question to see if the critics of mandatory evaluations would ruin another faculty meeting with their renegade feelings...
...Tehran conference had Iran granted the visa applied for by Khaleed Mahameed, a Palestinian lawyer from Nazareth, who runs a small Holocaust museum there. He has dedicated himself to impressing on Palestinians the need to understand the trauma at the heart of the Israeli psyche, in order to make progress in their own national struggle...
Dressed in a brown suit jacket, teaching fellow and Government graduate student Samuel W. Goldman doesn’t look much like a punk rocker. His curriculum vitae, which includes publications in the Weekly Standard and Wall Street Journal and a thesis-in-progress advised by Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, is not a product of counterculture. Looks can be deceiving. “When I was in high school, I was, not to say a leader,” Goldman says, “but maybe a fixture in the New York area punk scene...