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...Criticism of the war surely is dispiriting to the soldiers who are engaged in it. If you're killing and risking death in a miserable faraway desert, you ought to be able to believe that your sacrifice is in a worthy cause. But whose fault is it if that belief is hard to sustain? Is it the fault of people who note that the cause is not worthy? Or is it the fault of the people who sent American soldiers into this distant desert in an unworthy cause...
...think it’s something that’s going to get worked out in practice.”The proposed categories that could include history-related courses are “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding,” “Culture and Belief,” “Ethical Reasoning,” “Societies of the World,” and “The United States in the World.”DEMANDING EC 10While some historians fear that students will choose economics over history if both are counted toward the same...
...economists, psychologists and other experts, the gulf between the public belief in Europe that the euro has sent prices up and official statistics that show it hasn't is providing a rich new area of research, inspring dozens of learned papers with titles such as "Expectancy Confirmation in Spite of Disconfirming Evidence...
...course, to the Task Force, these facts have little bearing since they are convinced that most history isn’t directly applicable to the present. They would never, it seems, hold the archaic belief that knowing the past prevents the repetition of mistakes. How quaint...
...distance bus from Beijing to visit Chen. The bus was stopped in mid-journey and a group of seven or eight unidentified men, some of them wielding iron bars, climbed on board and attacked the lawyers. "I keep a positive attitude," Li said, but inevitably such experiences "shake my belief in the legal system of this country." Then Li showed me a picture someone had taken of him after the beating. His entire head and faced were covered in blood. I asked if I could have a copy, but he declined. "It would be too sad," for people...