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...anyway, say the London atheists, it's actually the Christian adverts that may be offensive to some. While the Humanist Association defends the right of Christians to air their views, many of its members object to the Christians' choice of words. Richard Dawkins, the eminent Oxford biologist and author of the best-selling book The God Delusion, takes issue with a slogan that calls nonbelievers fools. "That's a particularly obnoxious quote from one of the Psalms," he says. "Ours was extremely gentle and respectful by comparison." The use of the word probably in the atheist slogan, he says, does...
...winning personalities found in most U.S. animation. Indeed, the girl's "real" environment and her dream-nightmare one are equally remote from the reassuring landscapes in standard American cartoon features. That chilly visual vocabulary, along with a narrative that too often detours into ingenious irrelevancies, makes Coraline an object to be admired, but not embraced...
...changed the object of what we’re doing,” Spaepen said...
...moment is gone, the briefly reclaimed piece of my soul once again stripped away from me. With no clear object of my scorn, I can only hope to be lucky enough to be present when the next douchey Ivy squad comes to town. Either that, or travel to Providence when the Harvard baseball team goes to Brown this spring...
...with great sadness that we mark the closing of Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum and the general cuts in education that this loss symbolizes. The Rose, home to Brandeis’s 6,000-object art collection, was approaching its 50th anniversary, but may not make it to that milestone. On Monday, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to close the museum and use its collection—worth an estimated $350 million—in order to generate funds to cover the University’s looming multimillion-dollar budget deficit. While the plan has been...