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...only a matter of time before the challenge of Oscar Pistorius would run headlong into our cherished notions of what's equal, what's fair and what's the difference between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cool Running | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...reveal what kind of apocalypse the beast in Cloverfield brings, whether it leaves behind a charred, crispy earth or a moist green one or whether it just?no fair!?succumbs to old-fashioned human military might. But there's a part of each of us that is rooting for the monster and that would be glad to see us go. Because we know there's a little beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apocalypse New | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

...explored these ideas with my friends here—I have, and being able to discuss them for the first time with people who understand from their own experiences has been liberating. Yet we are missing a real opportunity to connect with multiracial students throughout Harvard. The student activities fair at the beginning of the year plays host to countless student organizations for a single race or ethnicity to the marginalization of multiracial issues...

Author: By Nikki Anderson | Title: Unacknowledged Identities | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

...part of the protesting profs. The letter, which was signed by several notable members of the physics faculty, cites a 1990 speech made by Benedict, then the Vatican Cardinal in charge of Church doctrine, describing the Church's 17th century heresy trial against Galileo as "reasonable and fair." The famed Tuscan-born astronomer had been prosecuted for affirming that the Earth was not the center of the universe, but in fact orbited the Sun along with the other planets. Two years after the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's speech, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope Cancels University Visit | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

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