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...During this global-warming boot camp, Gore stands in front of his cavalry for about 12 hours and explains the slide show presentation he gives in the movie. The volunteers are not required to follow a set script, but Gore offers specific advice on how to engage the audience and use metaphors to explain complex scientific information. A scientist on Gore's staff is present during the training to answer any technical questions posed by the volunteers, and a professional speech trainer offers public speaking advice...
...Religion” in the online course catalog many times when searching for classes on women’s issues. Maybe that’s why this class is worth a look. The Divinity School’s Leila N. Ahmed and Ann D. Braude explain how gender can be used to analyze religion. Escape the old Faculty of Arts and Sciences and take Religion 1009 at the Div School...
...Devor studiously avoids judging the men in his film, depicting them as regular guys who hold down regular jobs and attend regular parties. No talking heads appear on camera to explain the psychological sources of zoophilia. The closest thing Zoo has to a moral guide is the woman charged with finding a new home for the dead man's horse, and even she, by the end, is compassionate. "Michael Moore's first movie was about a group of Nazis and they were having a picnic," says Devor. "The left was very p----- off at him because he didn't clearly...
...would hold one once a week, and rather than go back on his word, he asked his staff to set it up. Gates didn't stop the presses with his comments, but he answered directly and, even, dare say, respectfully. There was one exception - Gates was unable to explain why the Pentagon misled reporters in the initial reports about an incident in Karbala, where the military initially said four soldiers had been killed on scene when in fact they had been captured by insurgents and killed later...
This helps explain why so many of the world's civil wars today are taking place in Africa. It's not that Africans have some inherent weakness for internecine war. It's just that African populations are more likely to be poor, reliant on commodity exports, ethnically divided, young and so on. Think back to medieval and early modern times, when Europeans were not much better situated. The English had their Wars of the Roses, the French their Wars of Religion...