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...more subtle than bin Laden's or the Pope's. Bernard Lewis has been teaching since 1938, yet his theories on the failure of the Islamic world have only lately shifted the thinking of American policymakers. Bernard Kouchner and Samantha Power--one a French doctor, the other a U.S. scholar--have challenged us to understand that a nation's sovereignty does not give it the right to behave abominably inside its borders...
...Bethell won the race and subsequently moved away from his Harvard career to assume the position of Senior Editor of The American Scholar. Meanwhile, the writers of Harvard A to Z made slow progress. The writing halted entirely in February 2000, when Robert Shenton died in a vacationing accident...
...Shenton was a major setback,” Bethell said. “Rick Hunt thought he couldn’t finish the project on his own, so he invited me to pick up some of the research.” Although Bethell was still working at The American Scholar, he said he realized his friend sorely needed the help...
...also said that any scriptural passage that degrades humanity cannot be truly divine—a notion he credited to Catholic feminist scholar Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza...
...example of this interpretive tradition, he cited the decision of Talmudic scholar Johanan ben Zakkai to end the practice of requiring women accused of adultery to drink “bitter waters” in order to determine their guilt because it did not apply in a contemporary social context...