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...Founding Fathers, as indicated in your story "Uncertain Beacon," may have expressed isolationist views, but many of the early patriots were vigorous internationalists. Benjamin Franklin said, "Our cause is the cause of all mankind." Thomas Paine, the fervently religious man who gave us the name United States of America, said, "My country is the world." Today that spirit is not just noble; it is imperative. CHARLES F. DAMBACH, Chairman Coalition for American Leadership Abroad Washington...
...Michigan-based Kresge Foundation was established by Sebastian S. Kresge in 1924 as a private foundation "to promote the well-being of mankind...
Robert M. Haas '97 spoke on Roman Catholicism. In his brief opening remarks, Haas said that "Catholicism is about the fact that God loves mankind and we should love each other and we should love...
...recent portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald, Norman Mailer quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "On Heroism," in an attempt to understand the mind of the killer. "[Heroism's] jest is the littleness of common life. Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good," Emerson wrote. "Now to no other man can wisdom appear as it does...
...which these exotic patterns become visible on a screen as the Blue Men spread shaving cream with trowels, is significant to Blue Man cosmology. According to Stanton, the unpredictability of fractals, their structure which is both methodical and chaotic, reflects the randomness of modern life and proves that "We [mankind] are not that crazy after all." Goldman is intrigued that "patterns do a thing which nobody expected them to do, which is look more similar the more complicated they become...