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...handle his promethean powers. Caution transforms suffering into virtue and material progress into sin; this psychology of self-denial suggests that we are sowing the seeds of our future destruction with our present prolificacy. If this sentiment merely led individuals to forswear their own possessions, it would be rather harmless for society. But unfortunately, the modern ascetic impulse informs a wide range of misguided policy proposals, each promising mankind salvation through self-denial...
...wasn’t all that shocked when a student called university police in fear of a harmless gathering of university students on university property. It’d be naïve for me to be. I know racism exists—not among all, but among enough that its occurrence is of little surprise. Despite what we’re fed by mass media, racism is racism, college campus or otherwise...
...might to suppress it, class at Harvard is like a cold sore: harmless but hard to miss. Globetrotting friends glibly recount their ski vacations at Vail or winter breaks in Fiji; BMWs line the parking lot between Lowell and the Fly; whole blocking groups oddly come from the same zip code...
...urged all customers to report anything suspicious they see to the nearest MBTA authority. “The T is concerned about all individuals who act in an erratic fashion,” said Pesaturo. “This threat turned out to be harmless and we got things under control very quickly, but hopefully, anyone else who wants to make stupid comments will think again.” Toomey, a resident of Arlington, Mass., is a bibliographic assistant at the University who works in the library’s technical services division in Central Square, according to Beth...
...West, Buddhism is often thought of as spirituality lite, the equivalent of golf to rougher contact sports-except with a better sartorial sense. Certainly, the saffron and burgundy robes, the serene statuary, all paint an exotic picture that brings to mind harmless, crystal-wearing Californians rather than religious fanatics. Our image of a clash of civilizations does not include renegade Buddhist monks. Nevertheless, we should be every bit as worried about the protest marches in Bangkok as those in other countries with different faiths, because the Thai call to prayer is being driven by the same worrying trends: nationalism...