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...Empirical Research Methods” and “Intelligence Research and Analysis” coalesce with a liberal arts core (Western history, Western literature, plus theology, or “Biblical reasoning”) to provide students with all the credentials of a prospective modern-day crusader...
...long time, conservative parents have been uneasy about sending their children—morally upstanding, as they were—to a college with any vestige of modern-day liberalism or secularism. Yet the parochial thinking of higher education has been: If a smart kid (or his parents) hopes to make a splash, he or she is unlikely to do so at a small liberal arts college—particularly if that institution is so unambiguous about its political leanings and its adopted dogma. The jury’s still out, of course, on PHC students’ viability...
...Goldman ’06 and the deliberate lighting by Kelzie E. Beebe ’04. John T. Drake ’06 contributes a punchy sound design which includes a mix of innovative music cues, many of which conjure images of the dance-loving Hedda at a modern-day rave...
What all these women had are C-sections. Not the emergency caesareans that have been performed for hundreds of years to rescue babies from women in medical crisis. (Legend has it that Julius Caesar was born this way.) Rather, they had an increasingly popular modern-day variation: planned, scheduled operations for all sorts of less-than-critical reasons. One young college student arranged her baby's birth to avoid conflict with her final exams. Another woman was convinced a C-section would ensure that her child's head had a nice round shape. Others are terrified of labor pains...
...While a modern-day discussion group based on the teachings of a thinker from the 5th century B.C. may seem quaintly outdated, Socrates Cafes have found a surprisingly large and diverse following. Meetings have been held everywhere from a Navajo Nation reservation in Ganado, Ariz., to an airplane terminal in Providence, R.I. Ongoing groups have formed in prisons, senior centers and homeless shelters. In recent months, international groups have popped up in Afghanistan, Finland and Spain. The common denominator? "People who get off on ideas come to this," says Fred Korn, 65, a retired philosophy professor, who attends the Wednesday...