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...discovered the movies, loved them and and swallowed them whole. ... Musicals, melodramas, westerns: Nothing was too rich or too poor for my rapacious appetite, and I gorged myself with a frequency that would shame a sinner." But he wasn't a sinner; he was a convert to the platonic ideal Hollywood painted: "In all those movies it was always Christmas and it was always perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Time and the City: Terence Davies' Liverpool Memories | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...Osburn is correct; while it would indeed be ideal to have a sexually and racially balanced court, concern for diversity should not compromise the ideal of meritocracy...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Mockery of Meritocracy | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

Jordan is the ideal setting to return to these sensitive themes, home to the royal Hashemite lineage that traces back to Mohammed, and a modern tradition of religious tolerance. This was also where a group of Islamic scholars from around the world first launched a response to Regensburg, which led to the creation of an official Muslim-Catholic dialogue that kicked off with a summit at the Vatican in November on the religions' shared principles of love of God and love of neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope Benedict's Latest Take on Islam | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

House: Quincy Concentration: Progressively more difficult throughout senior year Hometown: Milwaukee, WI Ideal Date: with Broadway. At the end it decides to put me in all its parts. What do you look for in a girl/guy: Being over 18. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Watching movies on the projector in our room, which was definitely not stolen from any Harvard theatrical organization Your best pick up line: “You’d be surprised, but I make an alarmingly attractive pregnant woman” Best or worst lie you’ve ever told...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: scoped! | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

Nonetheless, the Cutié scandal is sure to ratchet up debate over clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church, a spiritual ideal that seems to collide more often today with biological reality. (See the recent paternity-suit travails of Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, who has admitted to fathering a child and is alleged to have sired others while he was still a priest.) A bigger problem for the church, however, may be Cutié's Oprah-like standing in the Latino community - the only demographic where U.S. Catholicism is experiencing growth. America's Catholic bishops, many of whom are widely accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Father Cutié Scandal: Sex and the Single Priest | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

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