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...learned some pretty interesting things. Did you know that vegans can’t eat honey because of the unnatural condition in which bees are kept? Or that the waste produced by one cow each day can equal that produced by 40 people?My room is eerily dark when I return to it—the new light bulbs are only to be turned on when I’m home. Still, I’m the reluctant, thorny plant in our thriving green house. “Sam, what do we do with batteries when we throw them...
...were relieved and happy,” Kim said. “It’s a good day for journalism.” Richard Bradley, the executive editor of the magazine, echoed Kim in an entry he posted on his blog, “Shots in the Dark.” “[T]his is a victory for the ability of the American press to do its job,” Bradley wrote, “even when a $15 billion company brings its legal guns to bear on you.” Representatives from Facebook...
...began with a light, carefree mood, thanks to the “Overture to the Great Gatsby” by John H. Harbison ’60. The piece’s jaunty clarinet, saxophone, and piano parts deftly conveyed the cool, foot-tapping breeziness of 1920s ragtime. Its dark, clashing passages poignantly evoked the troubles of Gatsby’s life, as did the lively, often frantic melodies that suggested Gatsby’s extravagant dance parties...
...when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love, and goodness, that we drift into a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark sensation of meaninglessness and abandonment is all the greater." In other words, the fall of Communism again proves that human salvation lies in the Gospel alone...
...which drives us." But this eminently cerebral Pope makes clear that his vision of the Christian message is much more than an intellectual exercise. "The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open...