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...complete disappointment, either. The passing years have, indeed, taken some of the shimmer and shine off Paris - as they have off every great city. It is not immune to traffic problems, overcrowding, political and commercial ugliness, and it is probably correct of Delpy to acknowledge that unpleasantness. The same, obviously, can be said about romantic transactions. Jack's tummy troubles and Marion's shadowed past are pretty much par for the course of true love nowadays. Whether or not an audience wants to immerse themselves in such matters is another question. Maybe we still want the Seine to sparkle...
...When news of France’s proposed ban on students’ wearing “ostentatious” religious symbols inside public schools reached the United States in 2003 and 2004, politically-correct denizens reacted with alarmed incomprehension. “The proposed law is an unwarranted infringement on the right to religious practice,” declared Kenneth Roth, executive director of New York-based Human Rights Watch. The New York Times stated that the then-proposed measure would only exacerbate the problems it was meant to resolve. “That was why the West embraced...
...heaven. Bush maintained that only born-again Christians were eligible for entrance, as he had been learning in his Bible study; Barbara Bush disagreed and telephoned Graham to let him settle the matter. The evangelist said that while the younger Bush's reading of the Bible might be technically correct, he warned both of them that no one should try to play God--for God alone knows who has or has not received Christ as their Saviour...
...unlike most species, Banaji said, human intelligence allows for an ability to correct for those biases...
...Most evaluations of public policies that involve cost effectiveness compute the cost at an individual level and then calculate the benefits,” Christakis said. “If our findings are correct, a 20-pound weight loss in you might also induce weight loss...in your social network. There may be an additional 180-pound loss, so our cost effectiveness has gone up by a factor of ten. So this would mean we’d have to rethink how we calculate cost-effectiveness...