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...European issue. It also exists in Malaysia, Nigeria, Sudan, Kenya and Indonesia - countries that have had nothing to do with the war in Iraq, which Time says is the galvanizing issue of Muslim radicalization in Europe. Andrew Onoro Birmingham, England I am a U.S. citizen who has resided in Spain for more than 30 years. I retain my American values, but I have totally immersed myself in Spanish society and thoroughly enjoy living here. I have seen others - French, German, British, Romanian - doing the same. But I have yet to see Muslims integrating into the European society that they have...
...less military force and more “soft power” in its foreign policy, a Carter and Clinton administration diplomat told students and faculty at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night. Richard N. Gardner ’48, who served as ambassador to Italy and Spain, discussed his political philosophy and related his experiences in a conversation with University Distinguished Service Professor Joseph S. Nye of the Kennedy School of Government, Gardner made the case for a return to President Carter’s foreign policy approach, which focused on human rights and international cooperation...
...such as Euclid's theories of numbers and geometry, and the Indian concept of zero, as the basis for developing such new disciplines as calculus and trigonometry. Of the early math books on view, the illustrated Treatise on Geometry is significant for its author, the Muslim king of Saragossa, Spain, and its date of 1080. Similarly, Arabs absorbed the theoretical concepts of Greek medicine, adding to them the idea of scientifically monitoring patients in a special place - a hospital. One page in a Treatise on Anatomy, written in Persia in 1411, details digestive organs, veins and arteries outlined...
What's in a name? Lots. For example, Leonor, the one just given to the princess born to Felipe, the heir to Spain's throne, and his former-journalist wife, Letizia. Lay-o-nor rolls off the Spanish tongue and has a right royal ring; a león is a lion, oro is gold. But frankly, a Leonardo would have been better. Maybe not to the thrilled parents, or the hundreds of journalists on goo-goo detail outside the Madrid clinic where the princess was born. But yes, the Spanish constitution would definitely have preferred un hombre. It says...
...peasant origins are the reason that true paella can contain everything from snails to rabbit (the chicken-and-seafood variant is a latter-day affectation that brings a concerned frown to the face of many Valencians). Paella's humble beginnings are also honored in paella picnics - still common in Spain - where whole families will gather for an outdoor cook-off, harking back to a time when communal meals were taken in the fields. These days, paella purists will argue into the night about which kind of wood gives paella the best smoky flavor, whether or not onions should be added...