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...country in a few years.”Of course, changing the director and head coach of the track and field program does not come without making serious adjustments. While Saretsky was not completely familiar with the coaching style of his predecessors, he admitted that he believed their methods were significantly different.“The previous coach… really did a phenomenal job with individual talent,” said Saretsky. “But we’re trying to have a more comprehensive—across the board—competitive team environment...

Author: By Paul T. Hedrick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Coach In It For the Long Haul | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...personal experience. Appropriately, Hofstadter devotes much discussion to the reasons that symbols, analogies, and empathy (or, as he calls it, “Varying Degrees of Being Another”) actually work. This book is a work of art, unabashedly self-referential on every level.Along the way, by the method of argument through anecdotes, we learn a lot about the author and his own journey through life, as he ceaselessly ponders questions about the fundamental nature of conscious existence. During his childhood, little Doug’s family realized that his younger sister was mysteriously incapable of understanding or using...

Author: By Benjamin C. Burns, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Reflection on The Loopy Self | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

Just as the homosexual community adopted the word “gay,” some atheists have employed a similar method to educate others and improve the image of atheists in society. A few years ago, Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell, of Sacramento, California started the Brights Movement, an effort to encourage the use of the word “bright” to refer to anyone with a worldview free of the mystical and the supernatural. “A bright” is totally different from being bright. The word was not chosen because brights consider themselves...

Author: By Jimmy Y. Li | Title: Coming Out Of The (Atheist) Closet | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...these cells, it said, were suicide attacks against Saudi oil installations, public figures and military bases inside and outside the countries. The ministry said that one of the cells had sent recruits to an unspecified foreign country to receive aviation training for use in suicide attacks, copying the operational method of the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. According to the Interior Ministry, the security forces confiscated weapons, computers, cell phones and more than 20 million Saudi riyals (more than $5 million) in cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Saudi Arrests: How Big a Plot? | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...persistently urged to become citizens - to former KGB colonel Vladimir Putin. A few members of the democratic opposition still left now reproach Yeltsin for choosing a successor who dismantled the fragile freedoms Yeltsin had inaugurated. But the point was not his choice of successor as much as the method of succession, forgoing fair and transparent elections, simply announcing his resignation and appointment of Putin as his successor on New Year's Eve in 2000, followed by a token, predetermined vote. By then, of course, Yeltsin's priorities were less lofty: safety and immunity for himself and his family and inner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Glimpse of Free Speech in Yeltsin Farewell | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

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