Word: scholarly
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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...
...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...
...past several months. The Vatican said the Pope did not intend the remarks - which he made during a speech in Germany on Tuesday - to offend anyone. Benedict didn't explicitly endorse the statement, which recounted a conversation between 14th century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and a Persian scholar on the truths of Christianity and Islam. "The emperor comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war," the Pope said. "He said, I quote, 'Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command...