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TIME: Have there been any narrow misses of Osama or Taliban chief Mullah Omar...
This position has integrity, even though it can seem at times cruel and alien to much of human experience. Most of us know that the force of sexuality, perhaps the most powerful in human life, regularly breaks through such narrow boundaries. But the church insists that its prohibitions are not intended to isolate or wound the divorced, or homosexuals or teenagers in love. Its doctrinal rigidity is maintained out of compassion and besides, the church has no other choice than to uphold the truth, however painful for those caught in humanity's crooked timber...
...accumulated--their confidence that the world is a fascinating place and that journalism, though it may sometimes be wrongheaded or squalid, is also critically important and, quite often, a huge amount of fun. Correspondents like Pearl are the true students of the world's diversity (as opposed to narrow-gauge group-identity ideologues at home, each crowd sitting at its own table in the cafeteria and glaring at the others through a haze of grievance...
Coercive protests may, in some cases, be justified. When protestors sat-in at lunch counters throughout the South in the 1950s and ’60s to protest segregation, they were clearly justified. But legitimate coercive protest can only be founded upon a narrow range of the most critical issues. Improving the wages of Harvard’s lowest-paid workers, while a laudable and important goal, is an example that does not meet this threshold...
...would be a mistake at this point to narrow it down by discipline,” said committee member and sociology chair Mary C. Waters. “Dean Knowles knows more about many areas of the humanities than many people, despite their formal expertise. You would want someone who has an appreciation, understanding, knowledge of all three areas, but I wouldn’t say for sure you would need to balance it out by discipline...