Word: interpretations
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Conservative students tend to interpret Biblical teachings within a modern context, but still follow many of the Jewish laws, including keeping Kosher. They do not share the Orthodox interpretation of the teachings about women, according to Stephanie P. Wexler '97, a steering committee member and a Crimson editor...
There has been no official response from the President's office to the council resolution. Are we to interpret this as a sign of complete indifference to the continued abuse of human rights in Nigeria...
Koyanis said that HUP reviews all requests from scholars wishing to interpret the Dickinson poems owned by Harvard, but Stambovksy's interpretation was "inaccurate" and "even the word choice was wrong...
...Dutch research is part of a growing body of evidence suggesting that nature is just as important as nurture in determining how we think and behave as sexual beings. Neurobiologists have cataloged apparent differences in the way men's and women's brains process information and interpret facial expressions. Geneticists have begun sifting through tantalizing clues that sexual orientation--as opposed to sexual identity--may at least be partly inherited (see box). Yet the subject matter is so charged from an emotional, political and even religious perspective that evaluating all the various claims dispassionately can be very difficult...
...righteousness of the hero is corrupted in the arrogance of the zealot. The zealot's mind mixes faith, reason and ego to come to its fatal conclusion. Amir's "wisdom" brought him to interpret the militants' belief in a divinely ordained "Greater Israel" as an end in itself, worthy of denying the divine principle of justice on which such a state must be founded...