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Because creative thesis writers draw on personal experience, some may not consider what they do an academic or intellectual pursuit. Hearing about the process of writing, though, alleviates any doubts we might have. Books are not written in a vacuum—they are influenced by scholarly minds. Beyond that, in the writing and revising, the process is itself intellectual...
...array of online technology tools.... [Our goal] is to make an array of online teaching resources widely available and to deliver academically innovative instruction, not only to our own students, but to a much broader audience that includes our alumni, the higher education community and others interested in the pursuit of knowledge,” Leydon said in a statement released Thursday...
...strict and belligerent brand of Islam, al-Zawahiri steeped himself in the absolutist beliefs of Sayyid Qutb, who was executed in 1966 for plotting against Nasser's government. Qutb's book Signposts Along the Road, a formative influence on the current generation of Islamic militants, calls for the aggressive pursuit of a holy war against the West, which he saw as home to a return of jahiliyya, the pagan barbarism that existed in the Arab world before Muhammad...
...more interested in the political dimension of Bush's speech - how Washington proposes to address the causes of terrorism - than in sharing in a vague notion of "responsibility." And the centerpiece of that political discussion, both for Bush and for the propagandists of Osama bin Laden, is the pursuit of peace in the Middle East...
...problem, of course, is making such a peace happen. And just as Washington is looking for action rather than words from partners in its campaign against terror, so are some of those partners looking for action rather than words from the U.S. in pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace. (The Israelis, for their part, are determined to avoid being pushed into an uncomfortable peace agreement as a result of international pressure.) Aware of Bin Laden's propaganda game, the White House has resisted any link between the anti-terror war and Mideast peace - the U.S. and its partners would beat...