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...according to Maltas, coffee isn’t the key to Darwin’s success. He says people flock to the shop mainly for one reason...
...Patriarch Eirinaios I, who's at the center of a labyrinthine religious and legal scandal involving the alleged lease of Church properties in an Arab area of the Old City to Jewish investors. Eirinaios' opponents within the Greek Orthodox Church accuse him of shady financial dealings, while his Palestinian flock complains that the leases give Israel a politically charged foothold in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem. The scandal has divided the Church - which owns some of the most important Christian shrines in Israel - between a few loyalist bishops and a rebel group led by Eirinaios' former right-hand man, Bishop...
...patriarchate has never endured a crisis of this magnitude. The flock has lost faith in [eirinaios...
...over the past decade. What hope can we hold in the dignity of man when all around us, every day, we see that dignity violated repeatedly, brazenly, and without consequence? What hope can we hold in the triumph of our faith, when our priests violate our trust and the flock seems to be ever-dwindling...
There is also the very popular explanation that women simply prefer small classes to large classes. This theory states that the natural sciences mostly have large, impersonal introductory courses and that women get turned off by this and flock to concentrations where every other class is a four-person tutorial. I would find this argument compelling, except that men do not like large classes either. I did a quick poll of several male friends and, with the exception of one senior who favors large classes on the grounds that they are “easier to skip...