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...inter-civilization" fallout from the 2006 Regensberg address, the battle lines being drawn around La Sapienza were part of an ongoing internal struggle within the West. The public skirmishes occur on the now familiar terrain of bioethics, abortion, Darwin and separation of church and state. But being a lifelong man of study and reflection, Benedict also sees the source for much of the conflict in how ideas germinate and spread on university campuses. Biographers say his experience as a professor during the student upheavals of the late 1960s - where he believed a godless pursuit of personal freedom was spiraling...
...philosophy exam to come second only to Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom she founded the existentialist school of thought. The two became an odd and inseparable pair, loving each other with an explicit allowance for outside dalliances. Under that agreement, she fell passionately in love, twice, and had a lifelong affair with crying and alcohol. A haphazard dresser and global traveler, Beauvoir also had no reservations about fictionalizing her liaisons with female philosophy students, whom she passed on to Sartre. We would be mistaken, however, to reduce her eccentricities to a life of temerity and scandal. Beauvoir inspired millions...
...mean old plutocrat, four times divorced, estranged from his daughter, laying down ruthless rules for the hospitals he owns. Far down the money scale, but superior in all others ways, is Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman), a polymath mechanic, faithful to his wife of 45 years, settled into a lifelong routine of diminished expectations. The only blemish on Carter's record: He smokes. In any movie directed by antitobacco activist Rob Reiner, a cigarette has to be a leading indicator of death...
...before they are thrust into the real world, where things will no longer be handed to them on silver platters, unless they work in the catering industry. And this is an important lesson, although an ability to write a moving essay about your maternal aunt’s devastating lifelong battle with leprosy never hurts.Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is an English concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...pointedly refused to play the outsider. "Twenty-five years ago, when mostly young gay men began dying, we certainly did not talk about it in church," Clinton told the crowd. "We've come a long way." She still has a way to go. In a recent Pew poll, the lifelong Methodist was seen as the least religious candidate...