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...break-up that I would need to learn how to be alone. Yet despite the irrelevance of essays on dying fathers and big tobacco, the thought of time away from other people did seem a bit terrifying. My initial revulsion to the idea slowly gave rise to the belief that being alone was synonymous with failure...
Classics professor Kathleen M. Coleman's Culture and Belief 17: "Institutional Violence and Public Spectacle: The Case of the Roman Games"—adapted from Historical Study B-06—will probe why institutionalized violence was so popular in ancient Rome...
...this belief in a living imam has made Ismailis a target for radical mullahs, notably the Taliban in the 1990s, who decry them as heretical...
...Austin, Texas, McClellan joined the Bush team in 1999. At the time, he believed the bipartisan Texas governor might be "a leader who could make us believe...[that] we could change the destructive dynamic that dominated [Washington]." He tried his best to brush aside anything that might contradict that belief. Yet during the 2000 campaign, he was startled at Bush's ability at self-deception. When questions arose about whether the candidate had ever used cocaine in his past, Bush tells McClellan that he just doesn't remember. "How can that be?" McClellan writes. "How can someone simply not remember...
...Interpretive Understanding requirement in Fall 2009. The majority of newly approved classes come from the humanities. Five will count toward the “Culture and Belief” requirement, and another five will count toward “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding.” Culture and Belief 13: “The Contested Bible: The Sacred-Secular Dance” will be taught by Gen Ed committee chair Jay M. Harris in Spring 2009. Another three Culture and Belief classes will also be new: philosophy professor Sean D. Kelly’s Culture and Belief...