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...into Christian theology. Having already written during his papacy a best-selling scholarly treatise on Jesus, Benedict had envisioned his trip to the holy sites in the Middle East as above all a pilgrimage to the birthplace of his faith. Such was the case in 1964 when Pope Paul VI visited holy sites on the first papal journey to Israel, long before the Vatican and the Jewish state had established diplomatic relations. When John Paul II went in 2000, it was a mix of pilgrimage and politics, with an inevitable emphasis on interreligious relations...
Huck and Chuck lose nomination, win right to make Delta Force VI...
Over 400 students from 44 colleges in the Boston area descended on MIT’s campus to network with their peers and local community representatives as a part of the Boston Black Student Network’s “HollaDay VI: The Takeover” on Saturday afternoon. The event, which began in 2003, aims to provide black students with opportunities to meet with business owners, non-profit organizations, and fraternities and sororities to enhance their social network off-campus and increase their post-graduate opportunities. “If we get people jobs and help them while...
...within the outlines of a crouching boy attributed to Michelangelo. He could borrow the eyeglasses from a famous shot of a screaming nurse in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and perch them on a Pope's nose. In the same way, the meaning of his screaming Pontiff in Head VI fluctuates. Trapped in a kind of isolation booth, where a thunderstorm of granular black strokes rains down on him, this Pope suggests the baying, baboon madness of authority. (Indeed, one source for the painting was a photo of Joseph Goebbels in full harangue.) Yet at the same time...
...program has been taking, says Johnson-Freese. On October 15 and 16, 2003, Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei completed 14 orbits of the earth in Shenzhou V, making China the third nation after the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. to put a human into space independently. Two years later Shenzhou VI carried two Chinese astronauts into space. This week's Shenzhou VII spacewalk is part of preparations for constructing a Chinese space lab. Subsequent flights would carry up the lab components, though Johnson-Freese notes that if China want to launch a larger vehicle, like a space station, or send a manned...