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...maybe surprisingly, the Pray section turns out to be the most interesting part. Gilbert can overcharm at times--she suffers from an addiction to cleverness--but her account of her time in India is beautiful and honest and free of patchouli-scented obscurities. To read about her struggles with a 182-verse Sanskrit chant, or her (successful) attempt to meditate while being feasted on by mosquitoes, is to come about as close as you can to enlightenment-by-proxy. She even has an ecstatic brush with Nirvana, which leaves her with a comforting insight into heaven: "You may return here...
...they?re talking hundreds. It still sounds like a long time, but, says Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton, "that comes to a couple of feet per century, and that?s more than society is equipped to handle." It doesn?t, moreover, take into account the two mammoth ice sheets of Antarctica, which pack about 20 and 200 feet of potential sea-level rise, respectively, if some new process is discovered that speeds their disintegration. Given what?s being reported in Greenland, the fact that nobody knows what that process might be should be little...
...conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, paid $2 million to settle his part in the suit. The article’s author, investigative journalist David McClintick ’62, said yesterday that his article “speaks for itself.” McClintick’s account has been circulated among some faculty and was mentioned at a Feb. 7 Faculty meeting where professors assailed Summers’ leadership. —NICHOLAS M. CIARELLI
...Sharon has “changed the paradigm.”“Yes, we are willing to negotiate with a Palestinian leadership if it wants a stable and permanent two state solution. If not, we will withdraw unilaterally,” Oren said.Oren’s account of the Gaza disengagement prompted questions and criticisms from Arab students in the audience. “I wish I could hear him say more about the Palestinian side,” said Divinity School student Hayfa M. Abdul Jaber, a Palestinian who was born and raised in Kuwait...
...hour blood drive last year,” Kathy M. Goodson ’07, one of the drive’s coordinators, said. “Ours only ran for 18 hours. We realized later that this time difference wasn’t taken into account in the scoring...