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...early tradition of challenge and inquiry that demanded a re-interpretation of the Koran relevant to the current era - is bold. Were she alive at the time of publication, she most certainly would have been charged with blasphemy by fundamentalist circles. Bhutto offers no new revelations - any close scholar of modern Islam will have made the same observations. But her reiteration of the Koran's message of peace and tolerance bears repeating; it is one that is often drowned out by the more headline-grabbing missives of those calling for death to America...
...beat post-Katrina ballad “Love is Free”), Riyadh, Alexandria, the Ganges, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, and Washington.Of course, with worldly knowledge there’s always a catch: if you don’t want to sound like the name-dropping tool at a Rhodes Scholar cocktail schmooze, you’ve got to be ready to offer a little something more than a list of proper nouns. And sometimes, in the wake of “God Bless This Mess,” Crow’s erudite message gets a little garbled. It?...
...Grieveson is an expert on American gangster movies, censorship, and silent films. But despite a distinguished career as a scholar of American films, this semester marks his first time teaching cinema to students in the U.S. Grieveson, current director of the graduate film studies program at University College London, will serve as Visiting Associate Professor in Harvard’s Visual and Environmental Studies department for one semester. He will spend his time at the College acclimating to the United States, continuing work on his latest book, and teaching two film courses—one on government and film...
...motion, which passed easily at yesterday’s Faculty meeting, grants Harvard a non-exclusive copyright over all articles produced by any current Faculty member, allowing for the creation of an online repository that would be “available to other services such as web harvesters, Google Scholar, and the like...
...Eliot House Masters for the past eight years, Lino Pertile and his wife Anna Bensted have certainly made their presence known on Harvard’s campus. Pertile, the Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, is a renowned Dante scholar, and Bensted works at the National Public Radio affiliate in Boston. However, they refrain from dubbing themselves a “power couple...