Word: believingness
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Jann Wenner said he founded Rolling Stone in 1967, believing that "music was about a lot more than entertainment values--it was about culture, philosophical ideas...a way of thinking which was informing the Baby Boom generation."
The Rangers also manage to deliver a message about coping with adolescence. In one episode the Rangers wind up trapped on Rita's Island of Illusion, and their bodies dematerialize as they grow more frightened about their chance of escape. The heroes rematerialize only when they start believing in themselves...
Doubting abuse victims' claims is legitimate. Memories of abuse often surface in therapy, and in therapy subjects are often open to suggestion. Elizabeth Loftus, a memory researcher at the University of Washington, has been able, in experimental situations, to trick people into believing that they underwent unpleasant incidents as children...
Washington -- Although they wonUt say so publicly, some Clinton Administration officials are convinced -- along with Jesse Helms -- that exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide did in fact order the 1991 murder of Roger Lafontant, a thuggish Duvalier militia leader. One senior policymaker says the murder allegation was mentioned in the...
Was Marshall lying, or maybe stretching the truth? I'd say so. (Regardless, her failure to act indicates a serious breach of responsibility.) Sissela Bok, the preeminent American philosopher and wife of Harvard's former president, explains incidents such as these in her book, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and...