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...love of God and the neighbor between the two faiths, and discusses the need for peace between the two religions. It draws comparisons between the Koran and the New Testament, emphasizing that common commandments supersede interfaith conflict. The letter was signed by leaders from all denominations of Islam. Miroslav Volf, director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and the principal drafter of the Christian response, said the letter is the most significant document on interfaith relations in the past 50 years. The letter from Christian scholars, “Loving God and Neighbor Together,” began...
There was also gossip about his possible Jewish parentage -- an issue that could have explosive implications for a politician in this country where anti- Semitism is still widespread. According to Zhirinovsky's own account, his father was Volf Andreyevich Zhirinovsky, a legal adviser with the Turkish- Siberian railway, who died in a car crash before Zhirinovsky was born. But an American reporter working for the Associated Press and CNN recently unearthed a set of alleged family documents in Alma-Ata suggesting that Zhirinovsky's real father was a man named Volf Isaakovich Edelshtein, a name most Russians assume...
...know how careful Inventor Volf's observations of stumbling babes and drunks may have been (TIME, July 10), but it would be a physical impossibility for equilibrium to be disturbed on an east-west line due to motion of the earth. In physics rotation is considered as an acceleration, but this fact would cause an infant to fall southward in the northern hemisphere, northward in the southern hemisphere, not at all on the equator. TIME'S SCIENCE section is highly informative, but this item looks like a bum steer...
...Volf had observed that deaf people without semicircular canals seem to have no difficulty in balancing themselves, that many had become outstanding dancers. But his most startling "evidence" was his observation of the way certain people walk. A child, said Volf, always takes his first toddling steps toward the east. Why? Because the earth's rotation in that direction makes it easier. Suggested Volf: "Just try to call a child who has begun to walk in the easterly direction. If you are west of the child, he will stop, sit down, turn around and crawl back on all fours...
...same, said Volf, holds true for drunks. He declared that he had found from careful observation that helpless drunks always walk east, fall down when they try to walk west. A drunk, Volf noted further, will resist entering a car or patrol wagon when it faces west but climb aboard willingly if it faces east. And he is much easier to lift to his feet if he faces east. Another useful tip: some drunks only fight facing eastward. Volf advice: "The fight may be avoided if the opponent will cause the intoxicant to face westward. This impels the intoxicant...