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...Because Larijani's political comback certainly had the blessing of Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei - who wields executive power in Iran - an analyst in Tehran told TIME it signals that Khamenei, the ultimate arbiter in Iranian politics, may be prepared to sanction challenges to Ahmadinejad's reelection next year. Whether or not Larijani becomes a presidential candidate, he is likely to use his high-profile post as parliamentary speaker to question Ahmadinejad's policies and offer alternatives. That, along with Khamenei's ambivalence about Ahmadinejad's political future, could weaken the incumbent's authority and prepare the ground...
...Divinity School student who first conceived of the tour. Punishment for protesting an “immoral law” would be a badge of honor, he said. Harvard College Democrats President Jarret A. Zafran said the bill is “rank hypocrisy” and a government sanction of discrimination. He added that the possibility of punishment did not dissuade him. “It’s a small price to pay,” said Zafran, whose group is co-sponsoring the tour. “Not all laws are just laws...
...been put on display in a glass casket, with a special silicon mask - beard, bushy eyebrows and all - created by London-based wax museum artisans. Everyone knows what John Paul II felt about Padre Pio. But how can Benedict, the intellectually rigorous theologian, dubbed "the Pope of Reason," sanction such widespread belief in faith-healing and emotional attachments to icons and relics...
...head of the Vatican doctrinal office (the one in charge of the most egregious sex abuse cases), we asked whether the Vatican intended to deal with the one part of the sex scandal that seems outstanding: beyond attending to victims and taking abusers out of commission, would the Vatican sanction any supervisors and bishops who "aided and abetted" the priest-predators...
...hundred years ago, George Lyman Kittredge differed as much from Barrett Wendell as today Barbara Lewalski differs from James Wood. Happily the collegiality, at least at Harvard, seems to have improved. Perhaps the best reason, from this point of view, for shortening the name, is to give full sanction to our methodological pluralism—which makes the department weird and great...