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...words of the scholar Alexander Schmemann, “It is not because it gives life that love is good: it is because it is good that it gives life.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church says, “Homosexuality closes the sexual act to the gift of life and does not proceed from a genuine and affective sexual complementarity.” In light of the nature and design of our human sexuality, we must affirm in a spirit of undying love our commitment to opposing any action which sanctions or encourages behavior...
After being named a Scholar of the House—a senior-year honors program that allowed the blossoming writer to waive his fourth-year classes—Slavitt graduated magna cum laude with a degree in English...
...time, has always seemed a little larger than life. He was valedictorian of his class at brainy Stuyvesant High School in New York City, took first place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, graduated first in his class at Princeton and earned a Ph.D. in math as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. He was teaching economics at Harvard when he started reading about DNA. "Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core," he says. "This is the kind of thing mathematicians love." Today Lander is leading the effort...
...much a test of a theory as it is a war. For Lewis and the neoconservatives, the failure of Islam to reconcile itself to modernity is now too dangerous to leave alone. Moreover, they believe, the application of external force can be a catalyst for reform and peace. No scholar has had more influence than Lewis on the decision to wage war in Iraq. To what end, we don't yet know. --By Michael Elliott
Timing is everything. In the spring of 2003, Niall Ferguson was known among historians as an astonishingly prolific scholar who had published important books on the German hyperinflation of the 1920s, the House of Rothschild and World War I, and was the impresario of a school of "counterfactual" writers who took seriously the amateur historian's favorite question: What would have happened...