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...religions - is an integral part of the European identity, while Muslims should be willing to bend to certain laws that are in place for the common good, with no exceptions. A U.S.-style hands-off approach keeps church and state separate, but still gives the faithful a space in mainstream society: lift statewide bans on the veil (and all other religious symbols), but leave decisions on dress codes to individual institutions and organizations. So while one school might prohibit teachers from wearing the niqab in class, another might not, giving Muslim teachers a choice of where to work. In return...
...such reasoned and academic arguments have largely failed to filter into the mainstream public debate. But in the world of statisticians, there is some introspection taking place. "Perhaps the communication of statistics was too focused on averages and not enough on variants," Giovannini says. That's a statistician's way of saying people were not warned that some prices could go up, even if inflation as a whole stayed down. Now, it's a bit late...
...damage the debate. When such groups are viewed as just another set of pacifist protesters, it means that we have trivialized the anti-war movement, undermining its reputation and ability to act. The Bush administration has repeatedly tried to portray the entire anti-war movement as crazy fanatics; allowing mainstream protesters to become indistinguishable from people like the LaRouchians makes these attacks even more effective...
...spoke to Lambert-Beatty, one of his professors, and applied. He is now one of eight interns working at the exhibit.“I always had an interest in experimental art, and had a problem with the fact that video [art] was supposed to be mainstream,” said Camacho, who is also a VES concentrator.With displays available for watching the films in the Sert Gallery, as well as a free loan program, EVR ambitiously aims to remedy that problem.As Lambert-Beatty says, “It’s like a video store—hands on?...
...middle-aged women with cellulite and cats. But last week, when I spotted “Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul” nestled between two Tolstoys on the bookshelf of a seemingly normal friend, it hit me.At some point in recent years, self-help books have become mainstream. In fact, a large proportion of students at Harvard have presumably read at least one, since the syllabus for Psychology 1504: Positive Psychology included “The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem”.When did the American public become so reliant upon the advice of others? Actually, it?...