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...climate of fear has settled over Iraq's universities at a time when the country needs them most. Iraq's higher education system is slowly being rebuilt, with the aim of training the country's best and brightest to reconstruct a society shattered by tyranny, sanctions and war. But violence has jeopardized those hopes. Academics have become a favored target for terrorist groups aiming to destabilize Iraq and for kidnapping gangs looking for soft targets. A recent nationwide U.N. study says 48 academics have been assassinated. Taher al-Bakaa, who was Iraq's Minister for Higher Education under former Prime...
...month-long project—the first major road project in the Square since the Red Line was extended in the 1980s—will also reconstruct parts of JFK, Palmer, Church, and Winthrop Streets and add new street lamps...
...spelled out his views in a series of forthright interviews that were published in book form this year in several languages (U.S. version, published last month: The Ratzinger Report, Ignatius Press, $9.95). Ratzinger's remedy for the "self-destruction" of Roman Catholicism over the past 20 years is to "reconstruct the church" by returning to "the authentic texts of the original Vatican...
Instead, Lelyveld writes a great deal about the strange relationship between his mother, a woman with a doctorate in dramatic writing who felt trapped by her family’s needs, and father, a nationally renowned reform rabbi. Still more of his narrative attempts to reconstruct the life of a man named Ben Goldstein, a significant figure in his childhood. Goldstein is a complex character, so much so that he might merit a work all his own, but he really has no place taking up so much room in what is ostensibly Lelyveld’s story. He may loom...
...several community leaders question the need to reconstruct the intersection...