Word: enlightenedness
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As a Muslim physician trained in beautiful Britain, I was very sad to read that the people whose main responsibility was to save lives were determined to take the lives of innocent people. The terrorists not only betrayed their religion but stabbed their profession in the heart. It is not...
And that can be done. A generation of enlightened teaching and robust encouragement has awakened American girls to the need for higher education. Women now outnumber men in college by a ratio of 4 to 3, and admissions officers at liberal-arts colleges are struggling to find enough males to...
On June 29 London awoke to headlines of a thwarted terrorist attack. Gordon Brown's new government responded to the immediate crisis in a measured way. But the longer-term crisis, the phenomenon of "Islamic" terrorism, remains. To cope with it, Brown's administration will need several layers of strategic...
When Musharraf first came to power, he seemed for a time to be decisive and enlightened, and after Sept. 11 won full backing from the U.S. Maintaining his position as head of the army, he assured the country, was a temporary measure to ensure stability. If he ever felt the...
“The sciences have a real responsibility to make sure that the enlightened citizenry can understand what science is about,” he said, emphasizing that Harvard’s science faculty should take care to speak to non-science people to “increas[e...