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...vintage, you could be off to Bolgheri to meet the aristocrats who produce it. An insider's tour of Venice with Count Francesco da Mosto, who presented a BBC documentary and authored a book on his city, or an after-hours visit to the Vatican Museums with a noted scholar like American art historian Timothy Verdon are other options. Your imagination is the only limit. tel: (39-055) 264 5033; www.italy.artviva.com
...that for balancing faith and reason? The misguided portrayal of Islam in our world does not spring from an enlightened scholar discussing ecumenism and peaceful dialogue, but from the barbarians that burn and kill with pens or swords...
...seems that the part of Benedict's speech that deals with religious violence extends beyond Manuel's statement and is precisely a slap at Islam. The truly problematic text, in fact, is a mixture of quotes from the Byzantine emperor, his German translator Theodore Khoury, a medieval Muslim scholar named Ibn Hazm, and the Pope's own musings. In combination, they seem to suggest that Islam's idea of God is so oblivious to the virtue of reason that it tolerates unthinking violence in Allah's name...
...takes over for longtime papal spokesman Joaqu?n Navarro-Valls. Though Navarro-Valls, a suave Opus Dei layman, was prized for his ability to shape John Paul's message for the modern media, he too had appeared to be biding his time since the start of this pontificate. The Jesuit scholar Lombardi, a much more low-key figure, must begin to help translate Benedict's lofty prose into the stuff of daily news copy. Also, just last week, the new head of the Vatican's foreign affairs office was named. It is Mons. Dominique Mamberti, a Moroccan-born Frenchman...
...historian of the black church and a scholar of African American women in the 19th and 20th centuries, Higginbotham became the second black woman to be tenured in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) when she arrived at Harvard in 1994 from the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, she also sits on the faculty advisory group of the Presidential Search Committee...