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...runs a garage around the corner from where Achrak was killed. Civil-rights activist or self-interested agitator? Abou Jahjah may be a little bit of both. But Belgians shouldn't expect him to quiet down anytime soon - he's running for Parliament in June. - By JOHN MILLER/Antwerp THE THINKER Shaker Assem, 38, Germany The six policemen who woke shaker Assem and his family early on the morning of Nov. 12 were polite and respectful. "Maybe they knocked a little too loudly on the door, but otherwise they were very professional," he says. The surprise visit to Assem's Duisberg...
...DIED. JOHN RAWLS, 82, influential American thinker and Harvard University professor best known for his groundbreaking 1971 book A Theory of Justice; in Lexington, Massachusetts. The book provided fresh insights into the concepts of justice and equality at a time when the morality of the Vietnam War was being hotly debated in the U.S. Some critics regard Rawls as the best writer on the subject since German philosopher Immanuel Kant two centuries before...
...Whatever she says, she says for herself. She’s a fiercely independent thinker,” another professor in the English department said...
...English department to extend anew its invitation for him to speak at Harvard ( News, “In About-Face, English Dept. Re-Invites Anti-Israeli Poet,” Nov. 20). Paulin had been invited to Cambridge in his capacity as a poet, not as a political thinker. He did not come here to impart an anti-Semitic manifesto...
...Nicoletta Peyran, and their two children, who speak French with a Provençal twang. He feels right at home in Europe where, he says, gifted people aren't pigeonholed. America has experts, says Malkovich, but Europe can yield magisterial figures like the late Pier Paolo Pasolini, a political thinker, novelist and film director. Another inspiration: Jean-François Revel, whose bestselling book, The Anti-American Obsession, is only the latest reflection of the author's catholic interests from Proust to political philosophy. "Here there is more apt to be infiltration from one form to another," Malkovich says...