Word: humanity
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...same time, fasting also provides a fascinating form of reassurance, if only because our discomfort is self-imposed. As such, we can readily take it away, but yet choose not to. It is this ability to make such a choice that defines who we are as human beings. Indeed, what other creature acts in a manner that initially seems so detrimental to its own well-being, with the sole purpose of achieving a higher, perhaps not readily comprehensible goal...
...bill without the public option is not victory; it’s defeat,” Dean declared. The crowd’s frustration with Obama was more palpable. The final questioner simply asked, “Why aren’t you the Secretary of Health and Human Services?” “I used to wonder about that and worry about that,” Dean said. “But I must say I couldn’t have said any of the kinds of things I said tonight if I were...
...commitment to justice has to take into account the historical forces in which people are living.” Audience members also had their own challenges to Sandel’s ideas in a question-and-answer session. Rima Merhi, a fellow at the HKS Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, said after the talk that the panel did not spend enough time discussing implementation of justice and the relationship between justice and politics. “I really feel so many people don’t understand what injustice is. They live in the developed world and write...
...late night oversight made under the pressure of impending deadlines. But it was a grave error nonetheless, and one that demands correction. As Americans, we must practice what we preach—what was true in Cairo is true in Cambridge. We—as fellow staff, students and human beings - ask that you please set the record straight for the Crimson’s readership and issue an appropriate apology for the hurt inadvertently caused to so many...
...more relishes (to our unending entertainment) relaying strange customs and fantastical tales he's encountered, like the Khmer women who urinate standing up ("and that is really funny"); the ceremonial, contracted deflowering of young girls by priests, which Zhou details in one of his longest passages; the stealing of human gall bladders; and the nine-headed serpent spirit that turns into a woman and with which the King must couple each night in a chamber at the top of the Phimeanakas (which is still standing). "If for a single night he stays away," Zhou tells us, "he is bound...