But Benedict is the first pope to personally do so, and Jewish scholars said Wednesday that his arguments were a milestone attack on the "foundation of anti-Semitic persecution".
"I am fully confident that we will combat them," General Musharraf said in a speech to Islamic scholars last Wednesday, referring to foreign militants who he said misused Pakistan territory to advance their own agenda, state-run media reported.
President Obama will award the National Medal of the Arts and the National Humanities Medals to a total of two dozen writers, performers, artists and scholars on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON -- When it comes to charter schools, the bad ones stay bad and the good ones stay good, according to a report on charter school growth released by an influential group of Stanford University scholars on Wednesday.
In meetings with journalists, on Friday, and with think-tank scholars, on Sunday, he encouraged more scientific collaboration, academic exchanges, tourism, sports matches, and, eventually, business opportunities with the United States.
You could argue that Victoria's sacred works, which benefited from a suave, beautifully shaped performance by the Tallis Scholars on Friday, and the Boston Camerata's venerable edition of the medieval "Roman de Fauvel," heard on Wednesday, are part of the early-music canon.
Reacting to the decisions, legal scholars on Thursday used words like "huge" and "bold" to describe them.
A group of about 160 Somali scholars on Thursday issued a fatwa against the Shabab, condemning their use of violence.
An Italian scholar said Wednesday that he had discovered the oldest known complete Torah scroll, dating from the 12th to the 13th century.
Pakistan's interior minister, Rehman Malik, had urged religious scholars on Thursday to scale down their protest rallies, given the precarious security conditions in the country.
