Word: meaningfulness
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Bhutto treats the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as personal affront, one that "twisted the values of a great and noble religion and potentially set the hopes and dreams of a better life for Muslims back a generation." Muslims, she says, "became [al-Qaeda's] victims too." For the...
Skimming the e-mail, somehow oblivious to its meaning, we all expressed bemusement—but not surprise—at her choice.
Hand-shaking alone isn’t enough if you’re trying to earn a seat in Cambridge city government—fund raising figures for the 2007 election show that successful candidates need lots of cold, hard cash. There was wide variation in the amount that candidates...
The tide doesn’t seem set to turn soon, either; American government-as-religion seems set to win more converts, not to dissolve. For example, Obama has interspersed his soapbox oratory with calls for a new “national service,” one that aims to...
Norphel found his state funds cut in 2006 as part of the fallout from an unrelated political dispute between government officials and Ladakh's notoriously crowded field of NGOs. Still, the quixotic Ice Man remains determined to prove the power of his invention. His biggest and most successful glacier is...