Word: correctives
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...house, we're about to be reminded how strongly they feel about leaving out the correct cookies for Santa. Just as they feel strongly about the traditional sleepover the night before the last day of school. Or the cake on the dock on the last night of the summer, when we review what we've learned since June. Or the sacred right to make ice cream from the first snowfall and eat it for breakfast. Some traditions are set by Scripture or laced with superstition; others are accidents elevated into ceremony, habits in party clothes. A Woody Allen character viewed...
...parallels in the way the two groups are organized and the fact that they both began to pursue a utopian yet undefined vision of a future society. Like the leaders of the RAF, al-Qaeda's leaders come largely from educated, middle-class backgrounds and in their desire to correct what they see as long-standing injustices, both groups embrace violence. "Both give a wider, productive focus to the individual's frustration of not being able to affect policy through normal channels," Hoffman says. "For young people looking for discipline and a focus it could help them feel a part...
...example, the recently unclassified National Intelligence Council report stating that "the problem of feeding a burgeoning population is not agriculture or science, but rather political stability, transportation and distribution.” Not long ago, this view of the world would have been ridiculed; today, we may call it correct...
...Protestors vowed to carry on with nationwide demonstrations on Tuesday and Thursday. "We want reform to correct the problems in public education, but we won't accept this one in any form," warned student leader Alix Nicolet, who says students particularly hate Darcos' proposal to reorganize the final years of high school. They are also angry that cost-cutting this year eliminated 11,200 public education jobs and that another 13,500 may go in 2009. "How can the government claim it has no money to continue funding public education when it can come up with billions and billions...
...reality belief in God does not require a divorce from science. It simply requires faith in something that cannot be proven. After all, the logic of religious apologists, though circular, is correct in insisting that God’s existence cannot be disproved, either. Atheism, as opposed to agnosticism, therefore, requires faith as well. By scorning faith in God, Maher is simply scorning beliefs that he does not share but cannot rebut. Surely this sounds familiar...