Word: existence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kriseova writes in her preface to Vaclav Havel, the Authorized Biography. However, when her book was first published in Czechoslovakia, "literary critics attacked me for having written a pretty story, a fairy tale." It is good to talk about a hero in our times. If such a hero could exist, Vaclav Havel would fulfill the requirements. As a longtime friend, artist, and fellow political worker, Kriseova is well qualified to write about Havel's life. Her attitude towards him encompasses both familiarity and reverence. Kriseova does in fact present a fairy tale of a man free of any human foible...
Transcendental meditation (TM) was founded in the United States in 1957 by Maharshi Mahesh Yogi. His foundation, the Maharshi Institute of Vedic Science, trains all TM instructors and governs the content and structure of TM centers. Local TM centers exist as franchises of the international corporation...
...example, said panelist Suki T. Ports, who heads various minority AIDS councils, Asians won't go to psychological support groups because it's shameful to do so in the Chinese community. And since being gay is frowned upon in the Asian community, no Asian homosexual support groups exist...
...reason is that he doesn't know who he's talking about. Besides bigotry, his confused and contradictory picture of homosexuals shows a refusal to imagine them as real people at all. Can the people he's talking about possibly exist? Where are all these great artists who yet undermine civilization? Who are all these people who are so good for democracy and so bad for society? These are not the homosexuals that live next door. These homosexuals live in Harvey Mansfield's brain...
While fear of offending others may inhibit honest discussion of race, a misguided belief that racism doesn't exist here can be even more harmful. While many people believe that the KKK thrives "out there" in some uncivilized part of the country few are as willing to believe that racism exists in the Camelot of Harvard. Yet I was shocked by what was written on some desks in a Harvard library--things that I would expect to find on the walls of my high school's bathrooms...