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...seraphim and cherubim and touched on the topics of archangels and fallen angels, and this had left her in quite a muddle. Her question would leave many doctors, myself included, in a muddle as well. Doctors are trained in science, where the truth is defined by tangible proof, not blind faith. But science hasn't proven that angels exist or don't exist. And at least a few times in any doctor's career she will encounter a patient's stunning recovery or well-timed premonition that can only be explained by a higher power. So I answered my daughter...
Whether it’s in our relationships, our career paths, our course selections, or our studying and partying habits, many of us suffer from blind inertia, rarely questioning the path we’ve chosen. But it’s important, I think, to challenge that inertia before it’s too late: It’s for this reason, rather than for any athletic benefit, I swear, that I’m happy to participate in intramurals, even attend Senior Bar. It’s why I feel completely justified telling my friends to remain circumspect about...
...could see visible signs of love and caring, and whites wanting to, I guess, seek out freedom and equality and justice and to be color blind, but here I am, living in Montgomery, with people who are killing and shooting and calling me a nigger,” she says at the roundtable discussion on Saturday...
...Soledad O'Brien breed of smiling semi-hispanics) is the new brainiac, at a school that might as well be called Rainbow Coalition High. The hero and heroine's best friends are African-American; there's a Hollywood demographer's smattering of other ethnicities; and everyone is cheerfully color-blind...
...other words, the group of academically admittable students is disproportionately rich. Assuming that Harvard’s admissions office operates on the need-blind meritocratic system it claims to, a free Harvard would still have a high composition of the white, rich kids from whom advocates of a tuitionless college are so hopeful to separate Harvard’s reputation...