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...Brights Movement, an effort to encourage the use of the word “bright” to refer to anyone with a worldview free of the mystical and the supernatural. “A bright” is totally different from being bright. The word was not chosen because brights consider themselves especially clever or intelligent. It was chosen because “bright” is an uplifting word that atheists can call themselves to avoid all the negative connotations associated with atheist label. After all, why would anyone want to explicitly come out as an atheist, when...
Given the executive branch’s reluctance to regulate various industries, it is surprising that it has chosen to force arbitrary and misguided standards on an industry less in which autonomy is particularly vital: higher education...
...School of Government became the first to win a newly established prize from the Social Science Research Council, an international academic organization, for his interdisciplinary work in global economic development. From a pool of 31 nominees, Hariri Professor of International Political Economy Dani Rodrik ’79 was chosen by a selection committee of current and former council board members to receive the first Albert O. Hirschman Prize. “He is an original thinker,” said Barry Eichengreen, who led the selection process and is a professor of economics and political science at the University...
...even though Mahmoud has chosen a field that typically offers lower salaries, she is still confident that she has chosen right...
...Turkey, the choosing of a President is rarely the dramatic affair that it is in the United States. Turkey's President isn't even directly elected by the voters - he or she is chosen by the elected parliament - and the office carries limited powers. Still, the President does have the power to veto legislation, and is also considered an important symbol of the Turkish state. That's why the nomination for President this week by Turkey's ruling party of the country's Foreign Minister, Abdullah Gul, has reopened fierce debates about the place of Islam in the ferociously secular...