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...long-scheduled visit Thursday to Rome's historic La Sapienza University. The surprise announcement Tuesday afternoon caps a high-stakes academic firefight between fiercely secular scholars and the former professor Pontiff that included a letter from 67 faculty members calling for the cancellation of Benedict's speech...
...rector of the 705-year-old university adamantly defended his invitation, which he says he'd do "100 times" over, and Vatican radio warned of "censorship" on the part of the protesting profs. The letter, which was signed by several notable members of the physics faculty, cites a 1990 speech made by Benedict, then the Vatican Cardinal in charge of Church doctrine, describing the Church's 17th century heresy trial against Galileo as "reasonable and fair." The famed Tuscan-born astronomer had been prosecuted for affirming that the Earth was not the center of the universe, but in fact orbited...
...raising "false hopes" with his soaring rhetoric that emphasized ends over means. Obama skewered Clinton right back in New Hampshire, asking where the nation would be if both JFK - in making a manned mission to the moon a goal - or Martin Luther King Jr. (in his 1963 Lincoln Memorial speech) had instead shut down their visions and told America they were simply too hard to achieve. Delivered with humor and always to soaring applause, Obama's was a devastating rejoinder...
...speech was designed to stake Blair out as a man capable of taking the E.U. to the same place his supporters say he brought Britain: the fabled "third way" between costly welfare states, and unfettered, even savage market forces. In a recently expanded Europe where attitudes in its older members, such as France with its generous social security systems, often clash with newer entrants with far less protection as with Latvia, the promise of Blair finding common ground as he often did in Britain will be inviting to many people. Elsewhere, however, he'll find hostility to his vision...
...that reason, Blair's joke about his reaction to Sarkozy's policy of governmental opening to former members of leftist parties may ring sinister in some ears. "In the United States I'd be a Democrat, and in the United Kingdom I'm a Labourite," Blair quipped in his speech. "And in France, I'd be ... in the government...