Word: humanism
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...there's no intrinsic guilt in this religion. Since everything is sacred, you don't have to feel ashamed about your body or what you're doing with it, as long as you're harming no one. You don't have to feel guilty, or apologize, for being human...
Those who stuck out the first half hour, and didn't run gibbering out the door, would have heard the play's second half take a more familiar dramatic path, as a survivor roams a blasted landscape, looking for any signs of human life. Following the broadcast's end, news got to Welles of angry calls to the CBS building, and exaggerated accounts of death and mayhem in the streets of America lingered for days. "If you had read the newspapers the next day, you would have thought I was Judas Iscariot and that my life was over," Welles would...
...each of the College’s 44 departments and those departments affiliated with our 13 other schools. Since Harvard faculty and administrators are very protective of their own domains, the sponsor must make sure that the proposal takes existing resources into account, such as those available through Human Resources or the Association of Black Faculty, Administrators, and Fellows. Next, a sponsor needs to solicit advice from numerous associate, provisional, and otherwise-affiliated deans. Such consultations serve the dual purpose of providing feedback and potentially garnering support for a proposal. In particular, the deans of the College and the Faculty...
...communication between Europe and the United States on the issue of nuclear proliferation “literally insane.” Lamassoure added that European powers are increasingly willing to help American efforts in the Middle East. “We will share the financial, military, political, and human burden. It is so easy for Europe to be spectators and to let the United States do the dirty work. We can agree to do more in Afghanistan,” Lamassoure said. “If we send more troops, we must have more say...We must be a part...
...members of his own family while, to this day, 40% of the population earn less than a dollar a day. Political parties were banned and dissent stifled while Gayoom periodically renewed his own mandate through elections with only one name on the ballot. "There was a catalog of human rights violations," says Abbas Faiz, a South Asia researcher for Amnesty International. "Authorities could detain anyone and treat them the way they wanted. Torture was widespread." Nasheed, a fiery critic of the regime who came to prominence as a writer of subversive anti-government polemics, was repeatedly detained on grounds...