Word: believingness
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Believing or disbelieving something is always as much about feeling as fact. Sam Harris, a doctoral candidate at UCLA, wanted to see what that means in physiological terms. To many readers, Harris is best known for his antireligious book The End of Faith. But he is also a neuroscientist. In...
This does not mean Hillary can never be seen with her husband, or talk about any of her experiences as First Lady. But her campaign is making a fundamental mistake by deliberately invoking this past as the best rationale for a brighter American future. With Barack Obama winning independents and...
This is not a candidate who wants to leave anything to chance, even the interpretation of words that the Governor manages to bracket with unneeded quotation marks. ("'Small varmints,' if you will.") One would be forgiven for not believing the governor when he said, as he did at each stop...
The People Power Party (PPP), which campaigned on promises to pardon former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in last year's military takeover, came within 12 seats of capturing an absolute majority in parliament. But the win is not as convincing as it appears: it falls far short of the...
The former owner of a Cambridge hair salon was convicted yesterday of raping a former Harvard undergraduate and sentenced to seven to 10 years in prison, a Middlesex district attorney spokesman said. Duncan W. Purdy, who ran About Hair, a salon and antique shop on Arrow Street, was found guilty...