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Geology and theology - Essam al-Rawi saw no contradiction between his two passions. "Being a scientist makes me appreciate God better," he told me last summer. "My education and training give me a better understanding of His creation, so I feel a greater sense of awe toward Him." Both soft-spoken and outspoken, Al-Rawi was entirely comfortable being a professor of geology and a prominent member of the Association of Muslim Scholars - Iraq's main Sunni clerical group, long suspected of ties to the insurgency...
...Texas race, however, is raising larger questions about the Republican Party's ability to govern, says Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University, the alma mater of First Lady Laura Bush. After Hurricane Katrina and the state's embrace of evacuees from New Orleans, Perry was touted as a possible vice presidential material for 2008 and jumped in the polls (to 52% approval). But this summer, his ratings sank over a variety of issues, ranging from school finance (a perennial problem in Texas) to his vision of toll roads speeding NAFTA goodies through the border. The realization that...
...bigger worry concerns something that is least likely to happen--that someone will somehow meddle with the devices and manipulate vote tallies. It's not impossible. Princeton computer scientist Edward Felten and a couple of graduate students this past summer tested the defenses of a voting machine made by Diebold, a major manufacturer of such devices. Felten's team found three ways to insert into the machine rogue programs that allowed them to redistribute votes that had already been cast. In one instance, the testers had to take the machine apart with a screwdriver--an act likely to draw...
...study by Robert D. Putnam concludes that social cohesion is ultimately achievable even in countries with high levels of ethnic diversity. So the Harvard political scientist was bowled over this month when he found that his work was being praised by “racists and anti-immigrant activists”—with hundreds sending him complimentary e-mails...
...sign of Altshuler’s supposed disconnect with members of his own faculty, who were said to be largely critical of Summers. Some faculty members were also concerned by the fact that Altshuler—though a professor of urban policy and planning—was a political scientist by training and had spent much of his academic career at the Kennedy School of Government...