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...down with his overwhelming spirit? Now you’ve got something.And this idea is not a new one. This very paper almost two years called for a mascot, following the Harvard/Yale game of 2005—the greatest playing of the Game ever.So maybe my experience pales in comparison to the Greatest Game. So what? That Blue Devil was so cool. We need something cool like that. But way, way cooler.Let me be the first to start the debate. Let me be the founder of the great mascot rally of our time. I will begin at the beginning?...
...horror, the horror to be so white-hot they will cauterize and heal the wounds of war, and singe everyone's soul in the process. Well, not quite, but Platoon is still the most impressive movie to deal with the fighting in Viet Nam. Apocalypse Now was, by comparison, all machismo and mysticism; Stone's film is a document written in blood that after almost 20 years, refuses...
...brings up a comparison with the Vietnam War. What did you think back then about pulling out, and has your feeling about it changed in the light of history...
With the help and encouragement of the Dalai Lama, Davidson recruited Buddhist monks to go to Madison and meditate inside his functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tube while he measured their brain activity during various mental states. For comparison, he used undergraduates who had had no experience with meditation but got a crash course in the basic techniques. During the generation of pure compassion, a standard Buddhist meditation technique, brain regions that keep track of what is self and what is other became quieter, the fMRI showed, as if the subjects--experienced meditators as well as novices--opened their minds...
...small kiosks lining the souk sell clothes; often, underwear sets are hung just below rows of more traditional outfits like sequined belly-dance costumes. The underwear usually goes unnoticed by visitors, which is a tragedy, for Syria makes the rest of the world's raciest lingerie seem staid by comparison. "In Syria lingerie is manufactured by very conservative religious families for a religiously conservative clientele," says Halasa. Where frank sexuality and skimpy outerwear are commonplace, such as in the secular West, there is no need to "manufacture lingerie as racy and inventive as this," she theorizes...