Word: belief
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...very clear what will happen if all or most of these things go well. What is not clear is what will happen if things go poorly. The reason for the hundreds of billions of dollars being added to the federal deficit is the belief that the government can buy its way out of the recession. If that does not happen, the average citizen will lose what has been his last, best hope for having a reasonable economic life instead of living through a multi-year period of national financial stagnation and intransigent, high unemployment. It will be a world...
...Indeed, Souter’s conservative belief in upholding liberal precedents and stymieing the efforts of conservative activism is a quality Obama would do well to seek in his nominee. Additionally, in light of privacy concerns raised by the growing sophistication of search engines like Google and the perennial issue of net neutrality, we encourage the president to nominate an individual who is technologically proficient and well-versed in cyber...
...cold facts are that as you age, you will begin to lose your capacity for working memory, just as you will lose muscle mass, eye strength and balance. We call this aging, and none of us will escape it. But the new study reminds us of the power of belief: People can be persuaded to believe either positive or negative stereotypes, and it can have a real impact on their performance in life...
...bulwark” against slavish adherence to the letter of the law. It is, in short, precisely what is needed for the success of someone like Nesson, a man who advocates for causes that hinge on breaking the laws as they currently stand. A belief in the power of the jury is what makes it worthwhile for Nesson to remind his students, in the midst of the skepticism over fair use, that it’s the jury’s mind they need to read—not the judges, not his colleagues’, not his own. It?...
...Religion," he said at an earlier discourse Saturday, "can be corrupted .... when pressed into the service of ignorance or prejudice, contempt, violence and abuse." He called for a "mature belief in God." The speech at the mosque intertwined theology and a more nuanced view of current events than the purely philosophical discourse in 2006. "Often it is the ideological manipulation of religion, sometimes for political ends, that is the real catalyst for tension and division and at times even violence in society...