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...want to close their eyes. But surgery gives people an incentive to try new things, and a significant percentage of our patients take us up on our offer--to their benefit. We've done randomized trials in which some patients get tapes like these and others get sham mantras--meaningless scripts of random phrases. What we've discovered is that the words don't matter. The patients who do the best--in terms of managing pain and reducing anxiety--are the ones who use the tapes, real or sham...
...true irony of the whole Pappin controversy is that, if the BGLTSA and our tolerant tutors were to take down the meaningless signs and go after the substance of Pappin’s letter, they would win. Pappin denounces homosexual acts as “perverted” in support of his larger point: that Harvard College should “act in loco parentis by upholding for us…a moral framework...
...junior partner. "Taiwanese women nowadays enjoy higher autonomy, and such individualism and feminism is in conflict with the traditional family structure." Huang Chang-ling, vice president of the feminist Awakening Foundation, argues that the class should put more emphasis on gender equality, "otherwise it'll be meaningless." Couples needing a model of marital longevity, however, need look no further than their compatriots Liu Yung-yang and Yang Wan, whose 85-year union makes them the world's longest-married couple. Their granddaughter-in-law says, "(They) hardly had a quarrel with each other, keeping a very intimate relationship." Whatever their...
Earlier this year, however, the “leading opponent” signed a petition that called for divestment. On Nov. 25, he outlined the three concrete objections to divestment. First, Chomsky argued that divestment is meaningless. Second, he argued that it is wrong in principle. Third, Chomsky opposes divestment for tactical reasons. He argued that a call for divestment is “a very welcome gift to the most extreme supporters of U.S.-Israeli violence…It removes from the agenda the primary issues and it allows them to turn the discussion to irrelevant issues, which...
...self-proclaimed credentials as an opponent of anti-Semitism—this because, in his view, Zionism is tantamount to racism. Paulin declares: “You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist. Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.” This would be a meaningless statement, rather like saying “You are either a carnivore or a vegetarian. Everyone who eats meat is a carnivore,” were it not that for Paulin, Israel is a pariah state and any support for it a crime. In response to this kind of extremism...