Word: belief
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...determined to stand just where we are, where Turkey is, at a wonderful intersection of East and West. No bomb is powerful enough to damage Turkey's strength as a nation or shake its belief in both secularity and Islam. May God replace hatred with love in pitiful hearts. Nimet A. Kocak Istanbul India's Corruption Question In your story "teflon government" [Dec. 1], you list a supposed series of corruption scandals involving the Indian government?"the Judeo tape," "the costly coffins case," "the Tehelka scandal"?and attribute the list to "TIME Research." But it is more than apparent that...
...simple trick of calling one thing something else is suddenly enriching the few, bamboozling the many and threatening the Western world's belief in the sanctity of the label. At a Times Square movie palace last week, patrons who shelled out $10 each to see a new Tom Cruise movie, only to get David Hasselhoff as the star instead, angrily rushed the box office to demand full refunds. The studio admitted saving millions with the celluloid bait-and-switch but denied shortchanging customers. "Hey, guy," noted a senior executive, "Tom and Dave are both adult male Americans with all their...
Hardt and Negri's signature tone is one of rock-anthem optimism, and Multitude is definitely animated by a warmhearted belief in human goodness. But it is, ultimately, a work of Utopian thinking, occasionally shading into utter fantasy. Multitude treats the global populace as if we were all one big, happy, left-wing underground, undivided by cultural differences, eagerly awaiting our chance to sock it to global capitalism. The authors' examples of multitude-style international activism--the World Trade Organization riots in Seattle in 1999 or the G-8 protests in Genoa in 2001--have a wan, quixotic...
...delay spawned a belief in some quarters that the University gave credence to the far-fetched arguments that were offered to excuse the Zayed family,” Levenson wrote. “Fortunately, it now seems that such was never really the case...
...child's disposition has long been linked--fairly or not--to his or her mother's emotional state during pregnancy. Recent research lends some credibility to that belief. A study of 70 mothers found that women with high anxiety levels from weeks 12 to 22 of their pregnancies were more likely to have children who act out or are hyperactive as 8-and 9-year-olds. While maternal stress can trigger physiological events that might affect fetal development, the exact mechanism is not clear. Also uncertain is whether the anxious moms were themselves genetically predisposed to hyperactivity. Researchers hope that...