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...gate was originally built by the Romans as part of the defensive wall around Jerusalem and served as one of several entrances to the city. The gate visible today was built on top of the Roman gate in the mid-16th century by the Turkish Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, but recent diggings have revealed parts of the old gate, Rosovsky says...
...abortion [NATION, Sept. 24] says that medieval theologians estimated that "the soul joined the body at the 40th day of pregnancy." Forty is a magical number. The biblical Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights, Ali Baba had 40 thieves, and Moses wandered in the wilderness for 40 days. Suleiman died standing up, leaning on his cane. Nobody realized he was dead until 40 days later, when he finally fell...
Professor of Romance Languages Susan R. Suleiman will succeed Kates as chairman of the committee next year. She agrees with Kates that women's studies has "taken a big step from what things were like four to five years...
...Harvard has a strong sense of pre-eminence," says Suleiman. "People need to get used to new ideas slowly...
...news, Harvard gained three new tenured women, all through internal promotions, raising the number of female full professors on the roughly 350-member faculty to 21. The lucky three were: Diana L. Eck, a specialist on Indian culture and religion: Nancy E. Kleckner '68, a biochemist; and Susan R. Suleiman, an authority on modern French literature...