Word: gladding
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...into the ideology of Islam, and thus a clash of civilizations is inevitable between Islam and the West. From Douthat, we learn that this ideology comes from the Prophet of Islam himself, “a Prophet who makes war—in self-defense, arguably, but with a glad heart, a war-like spirit...a spirit that divides the world into the House of Islam and the House of Unbelief, and declares irrevocable enmity between them.” Where, in all that we know about the life of the Prophet, the history of Islam or the beliefs...
...without unduly restricting student choice. As a place of intellectual inquiry, Harvard should never hold students back from pursuing ideas—and as we argued last spring, a distribution requirement would allow students to pursue different ideas and approaches to knowledge as deeply as they chose. We are glad that Summers recognized in his inaugural address that any curriculum “can be improved”; now he and the Faculty must carry forward that recognition through fundamental change in the Core...
...glad to see more money going to the House committees,” said Cabot House representative D. Alexander Ewing ’03. “That’s where it will have a greater impact on student life...
...himself—the model Muslim, against whose standard all the faithful must be judged. And where Christianity has a Christ who turns the other cheek and gives himself over to be crucified, Islam has a Prophet who makes war—in self-defense, arguably, but with a glad heart, a warlike spirit and a knowledge that Allah is on his side. It is that example, that spirit of war, that flung the early Islamic empires outward to the corners of the earth, that spirit that inspired militant Muslims down through the centuries—a spirit that divides...
...glad that people came despite the wind and cold. It’s very encouraging,” said Koko Oyama of the Asian Task Force...