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...message of Islam from its medieval cultural baggage. Some of the fruits of that effort can be sampled in Loi d'Allah, Loi des Hommes (Law of Allah, Law of Men; Albin Michel) an extended dialogue in which Muslim sociologist Leïla Babès and Tareq Oubrou, rector of the Mosquée de Bordeaux, thrash out their often opposing views on the roles of women and individual freedom in Islam. Although non-Muslim readers may be daunted by the quotations and counter-quotations from hadiths (the reported sayings of the Prophet) that fill so much...
...dangerously low to entice easyJet, but the deal should help the company avoid the massive job cuts plaguing Boeing while providing its first access to Europe's coveted discount-airline market. Meeting Of The Minds Imperial College London must have expected big things when they made Richard Sykes a rector. As CEO of Glaxo Wellcome, he helped create the world's second-largest drug company by merging with SmithKline Beecham. His follow-up? Last week he announced plans to merge Imperial College with University College London, creating a huge new institution that would dwarf Britain's other leading universities. Feta...
DIED. JOHN C. HARPER, 78, rector for 30 years of St. John's Episcopal Church, known as the Church of the Presidents, on Lafayette Street across from the White House; in Washington. Harper preached to eight Presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton...
...University of Palermo has given out its share of degress to mobsters' sons in recent years. Professor Giovanni Santangelo, vice-rector at the university, said the Mafia's move into the mainstream makes it both more invisible and more powerful. "The sons of mafiosi today, with rare exception, are all white-collar. They are programmed to be so." Santangelo says that in the past, university degrees were turned into law careers to provide a small army of legal defenders. "They've already got enough lawyers. They're diversifying," he says, into public fund administrators (to dip into billions of dollars...
...NYPD also reserved a television spot on the show, “Police on Your Side,” for last night, according to Rector...