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...pictures made by Christians have been thinly veiled propaganda vehicles. They have not been the sort of art that comes from the gut. Some evangelical consultants urged Gibson to add explanatory verses of Scripture at the end of The Passion. To his credit, Gibson insisted that he wanted to retain some mystery, some impetus for viewers to return to their churches and their Bibles to ferret out the truths represented...
...leave a gaping inequity that it is the University’s responsibility to emend. Until the 1970s, women at Harvard enjoyed a huge amount of physical space designated as theirs. They also had guaranteed administrative support for, among other things, maintaining such places. While men had and still retain the option of joining final clubs for social space and networking, women’s prior access to their own House common rooms and libraries has been neutralized due to gender integration. When their predecessors’ renowned women’s college yielded to the tide of integration, female...
...government needs to make immediate revisions to its national security policies to improve the current visa application process if it wants to help universities across the country retain their most promising international students, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers wrote Monday in a letter addressed to Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge...
...bare foliage continues to bear more than a passing resemblance to the set of the Blair Witch Project (preponderance of red brick aside); deluded optimists who insist on wearing flip-flops outside end up with toes a distinctive shade of magenta by sunset; and carb-loaded comfort foods still retain that elusive yet maddening X-factor which renders piping hot pad thai an easy choice over macrobiotic vegetables...
...order. State Department and CIA officials fear the presence of Iran's hard-line al-Quds security forces, which they believe are working with the Lebanese terrorists of Hizballah and could be tempted to back the insurgency. Iraq's Gulf neighbors distrust Iran and would like to see Sunnis retain influence in Baghdad. With Iraq's fate so uncertain, foreign meddling may have only just begun. --By Massimo Calabresi and Adam Zagorin. With reporting by Scott MacLeod/Cairo and Nahid Siamdoust/Tehran