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...call to prayer will be broadcast in lights, pulsating to the rhythm of the muezzin's voice. Once the mosque is built, Erkoçu hopes Rotterdam's citizens will see the call to prayer beamed across the sky. Muslims will be able to look up and, no matter where they are in the city, turn their thoughts to prayer...
...need to change our hearts like that. Opt-out 401(k)s, simpler mortgage applications, programmable thermostats and cost-effective medical protocols can help us do the right things even if we remain ignorant, lazy, greedy and obsessed with childish things. It doesn't matter if we save energy because we care about the earth or our money or our neighbors; we just need to save energy. The government just needs to provide the right rules, incentives and nudges to help us make the right choices. It would be nice if Obama could change our social norms so that green...
...writing about you and [he’s] writing about [himself] not only to show that true alcoholic prose does not end in death; it ends in life, and who knows how life will end.” His ambivalence towards alcohol abuse—and, for that matter, toward any direction for his life in general—composes the novel’s substance. This ambiguity forces Jerzy to face a constant struggle: “...therapists are striving to bring reality to the point of sobriety, whereas I’m striving to bring reality...
...states” as if they were inhabited by spiders or other equally unpleasant creatures. Or, to take an example from the other side of the political spectrum, consider the strange mutation of the campaign in September 2008, when it suddenly started to matter where one came from. It’s still easy to recall how a candidate repeatedly insisted that the size of one’s birthplace is (somehow) a reliable predictor of character...
...matter who’s in the other dugout, or how much history there is to settle, the Crimson is focusing on the one thing it can control: its own play...