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Islam played a particular role--as both a threat and a model--in the drama that probably lies closest to Benedict's heart: the secularization of Christian Europe. In the same 1996 book, he wrote that "the Islamic soul reawakened" in reaction to the erosion of the West's moral stature during the 1960s. Ratzinger paraphrased that soul's new song: "We know who we are; our religion is holding its ground; you don't have one any longer. We have a moral message that has existed without interruption since the prophets, and we will tell the world...
...potential to leave tremendous voids in which Harvard has few experts. The best example of this is that the philosophy department has no professors of continental philosophy. Not only is there only tangential scholarship in this subfield, but students are unable to gain exposure to this particular area...
...more sophisticated games have long relied on soundtrack music for subtle mood manipulations. While “Super Mario Brothers” and its ilk had their share of minor-key tunes to cue the player that a particular level was eerier than usual, it wasn’t until after the end of the 8-bit era that computers and consoles were developed with the technical capabilities to handle more nuanced audio. LucasArts’ classic 1990 graphic adventure “Loom” featured gameplay structured around the use of musical “spells?...
...day… what’s your point?” Rees sighs. “Are these stakes not sufficiently high for you to come down on one side of the issue?”He says that comedians in particular have opportunities to effectively “come down on one side.”“I love it when somebody just stops joking and has a flash that’s just honest,” Rees says.Rees cites a Sept. 25, 2006 episode of The Daily Show as one of those moments. After...
...leader, emerges out of the workplace, and that’s what I think our political culture needs right now—someone to emerge out of the population, a leader with some vision, not a professional politician,” he said.He also praised college students in particular. “College kids have the luxury where they find that they can sit down, read some books, inform themselves, and be an activist, and that’s important,” he said. “I hope the film doesn’t belittle that...