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On the resurgence of Islam: The resurgence of Islam has different connotations in different environments. Please don't confuse fundamentalism in Islam, as seen by the West sometimes, with fanaticism or bigotry or rigidity. We in Pakistan feel that Islam has to be very flexible, accommodating the requirements of...
The final phase in the evolution of peace theology was the formation in 1980 of the Bernardin committee. Archbishop Roach skillfully chose the membership of the five-man committee to span the spectrum of the bishops' thinking on nuclear arms. The most liberal member of the committee is Auxiliary...
When World War II ended, so did Soviet-American handholding. At the outset of the cold war in the late '40s, U.S. policy turned once again toward quarantine-or containment-of Soviet power. That power seemed so predatory and implacable that the Western democracies believed their only hope was...
Birk is just one of the current crop of top corporate executives who prefer to think on their feet. George Shinn, chairman and chief executive officer of First Boston Corp., a leading investment-banking house, has been a devoted stander for twelve years. Shinn, a Merrill Lynch alumnus who also...
Exactly what these potentially devastating genes are doing in healthy cells is not clear, but the fact that they are present in so many species suggests that they perform an important function. "God knows, they haven't been conserved through evolution just to make tumors," says Varmus. These genes...