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...novel or this film makes that connection explicit. Both have obligations to melodramatic plotting and characterization that to a degree blur the inherent point of the exercise. In the end, Hanna's defense of her crime - she allowed most of her prisoners to die in a fire in a church (hard to imagine a more obvious choice of crime scene) - comes down to, well, yes, what Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil...
...Crimson contacted three of the four scientists who won grants from the Gates Foundation (the work of the fourth, Harvard Medical School professor George M. Church, has been profiled in the past) to learn about their “unconventional” research...
Author Malcolm Gladwell captivated a sold-out crowd in First Parish Church last night for over an hour with the story of a single plane crash. He opened by asking how many listeners would be flying in the next month. When most hands went up, he said, “Then this is scary. But the most important thing...about this plane crash is that it’s scary not because it’s unusual. It’s scary because it’s typical.” The crash is “typical?...
...historian James Carroll in his much read book Constantine's Sword. Carroll wrote that Augustine and his followers believed that Jews "must be allowed to survive, but never to thrive" so that their public misery would broadcast their "proper punishments for their refusal to recognize the truth of the Church's claims." And the rest, goes the claim, was bloody history. But in a new book, Augustine and the Jews, Paula Fredriksen, a Boston University religion professor and self-proclaimed "Augustinista," upends the received wisdom. Fredriksen is no coddler of anti-Judaism. A former Catholic who long ago converted...
...about 40%.) This latest episode, sparked by protests over local election results, only makes it seem less so. A curfew remained still in place as businesses were trying to recover. Soldiers and police kept vigilant watch on vehicles entering town, hoping to curb any potential reprisals. In every household, church and mosque, people blamed followers of the other religion with planning and executing the attacks with a vitriol that does not bode well for the future of the city or the region. (See here for pictures of the two sides of Nigeria...