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...behavior?murder, rape and arson?that has come with the acceptance of a confrontational two-party system means that well-being is lower today than it was under autocracy. That's not surprising: democratization and violence tend to go together. Indeed, the connection between democracy and violence is an ancient one: Thucydides and Plato were the first to put it forward. Iftekhar Sayeed Dhaka...
...Secrets From the Sand The unveiling of a 1,700-year-old copy of The Gospel of Judas brings to mind a previous discovery of ancient texts. TIME's April 15, 1957, cover story reported on what the delicate, 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls revealed about early Christianity: "Since a Bedouin shepherd boy named Muhammad adh-Dhib ('The Wolf') first stumbled on them just 10 years ago in a cave near Qumran (he had hoped to find buried treasure), the scrolls have stirred up perhaps the most vigorous debate in Christianity since Darwin ... The majority verdict: the scrolls...
...that it's often the facilitator who is really communicating), but it has clearly turned Hannah's life around. Since her breakthrough, she no longer spends much of her day watching Sesame Street and Blue's Clues. Instead, she is working her way through high school biology, algebra and ancient history. "It became obvious fairly quickly that she already knew a lot besides how to read," says her tutor, Tonette Jacob...
...ancient idea: death renders us all the same. The protagonist sees those around him reduced to symptoms--an ex-wife felled by a stroke, a lady friend racked with back pain, an ex-colleague failing mentally. Roth is writing in the medieval tradition of memento mori--remember that you must die. (The novel's title comes from a Christian morality play about a visit from Death.) But Roth's protagonist rejects the "hocus-pocus" of God and Heaven. If he were to write his autobiography, he thinks, "he'd call it The Life and Death of a Male Body...
...Donnell Field.Harvard’s impressive pitching staff will hope to continue its Ivy League dominance behind the powerful 1-2 punch of sophomore Shawn Haviland and freshman Adam Cole.Haviland has demonstrated that he is one of the best pitchers in the league, if not the best. His Ancient Eight stats tell the story: In 37 innings pitched, he has allowed 28 hits, six runs—only three of them earned—and six walks, while striking out 29 batters. That amounts to a league ERA of only 0.73, and his overall ERA of 3.48 ranks fourth...