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To solicit gifts for the new endowment for the Fogg Museum’s Department of American Art, curator Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. said he often approached known patrons of American art who had no prior connection to Harvard and were his own friends. While the six other branches of...
Of course, the occasion of that pulpit stint was the fourth anniversary of Khomeini's fatwa, over which Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Iran and during which time Rushdie, on whose head a private Muslim foundation had placed a $2 million bounty, was under police protection. Finally in 1998...
Rushdie emphasized this with regard to Islam, whose understanding of the Koran as an inerrant divine document dictated by an angel to the prophet Mohammed makes any Muslim study of its non-supernatural origins almost impossible. One of the several things that offended Khomeini was The Satanic Verses' willing creation...
Asked about their faith in our voting system, I suspect a large number of college students would reply positively—at least since this past Tuesday, when Barack Obama prevailed with all the gusto of a hurricane. Yet, were the same question posed eight years ago, responses might have...
Bebe Neuwirth is one of a kind these days. She’s a talented singer, actor, and dancer, or a “triple threat” as they call it in the business. “She represents a very specific tradition that is becoming rarer and rarer...