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...early 1920s, the economist and social philosopher Frank Knight offered an easy answer (though admittedly with reference to market participation, not the problems of college life): “Man’s chief interest in life is after all to find life interesting.” An interesting life is an entertaining life, and no self-respecting audience is likely to want to watch any of ours...
...paying a visit to one of his the key affiliates. Indeed, one should look at this speech much as if Benedict were a CEO making a major address to upper management, his words as a kind of spiritual "action plan." As always, improving the organization involves the kind of frank talk that the CEO usually likes to keep behind closed doors. But in this case, the "doors" were open: the reporters scribbling and the TV cameras on. A look at some of Benedict's key talking points...
...clashed after MDC supporters distributed flyers urging people to stay away from work. The MDC also said one of its campaign workers had been beaten to death in a rural stronghold of the ruling party. The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists also expressed concern over the fate of journalist Frank Chikoore, 26, who was taken by police at his home in Harare...
...officials pointed out that the Pope's other aim in the Regensberg speech was to challenge the West to rediscover its own religious roots. This twin clarion call - to Christians who have lost their religious passion and Muslims who may have too much - was supposed to create a "more frank" dialogue among the world's two leading faiths. After the uproar quieted, there has indeed been progress. Top Muslim scholars have written two open letters to the Pope, which has led to the first in a series of high-level Catholic-Muslim meetings scheduled for November 2008 at the Vatican...
Tufts University and Lesley University announced yesterday that they had received a combined gift of $272 million, the largest donation that either school has ever received. The universities will evenly split the money from the trust of Frank Currier Doble, founder of the Boston-based Doble Engineering Company. Doble, who died nearly 40 years ago, majored in electrical engineering at Tufts and served as a trustee at Lesley for over two decades. Calling the gift from Doble’s trust “phenomenal,” Lesley President Joseph B. Moore said that “there?...