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...professor at Northwestern University and professor emeritus at McGill University in Montreal, was proclaimed the latest Templeton laureate for his work in trying to bring a spiritual dimension, not to the sciences but to the humanities and social sciences - fields that overwhelmingly influence public policy, and thus affect peoples' lives directly. Taylor has argued in essays and scholarly articles that by failing to take individuals' spiritual needs into account and focusing only on the economic and political, politicians and social theorists have left out a crucial avenue by which people of all religions find meaning in their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canadian Philosopher Wins Templeton Prize | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...from last week generated heated discussion among NCAA members, Harvard Assistant Director of Athletics Nathan T. Fry wrote in an e-mail yesterday. He urged the NCAA to develop a firm policy regarding Facebook. “The NCAA needs to take a hard look at how these pools affect college sports, if at all, and make a definitive ruling on their permissibility,” he wrote. “If there’s no money placed on a bracket, is it really gambling?” In her statement last Wednesday to the Red and Black...

Author: By Allegra M Richards, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NCAA Clarifies Facebook Policy | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...Pterodactyls” is the type of play where a character’s main concern upon hearing that a friend’s child has cancer is how it will affect the seating arrangements at a wedding. It’s a show in which the best place to put a dead friend is out on the terrace for the rest of the winter, until the ground is soft enough to bury him. While this could be taken as a disclaimer, it will hopefully function as an enticement, because while “Pterodactyls” is jarring...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: Despite Its Darkness, ‘Dactyls’ Soars in Ex | 3/11/2007 | See Source »

...them. None of us are so perfect that we have the authority to belittle other people just because of their economic status. Instead of labeling and looking down upon an entire community, we should be working to counteract many of the systematic injustices still present in our society that affect the wealth of black communities. Unless people cease to judge others by their skin color and supposed economic background, the great American dream of social equality between all classes and all people will never be reached...

Author: By Lumumba Seegars | Title: The Dark Class | 3/9/2007 | See Source »

Career changes can affect family members dramatically too. When Reid accepted the P&G job, she uprooted her doctor husband from Richmond, Va., along with their two young children. The couple eventually divorced. Ruxin's move forced his new wife (the trailing spouse, in human resources--speak) to make a career change of her own. Alissa, 32, once managed wellness programs for Goldman Sachs; today she is about to open a swanky caf in Rwanda's capital. In his reporting on the "true stories of people who turned their obsessions into professions," Josh Piven, author of The Escape Artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Zeal For the Job | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

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