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...false hope of life without suffering. "We can try to limit suffering, to fight against it, but we cannot eliminate it," Benedict writes. "It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love, and goodness, that we drift into a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark sensation of meaninglessness and abandonment is all the greater." In other words, the fall of Communism again proves that human salvation lies in the Gospel alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For True Progress, We Need Faith | 12/1/2007 | See Source »

...fourth film, hoping that fans would have forgiven, if not forgotten, the lousy third installment. Unfortunately, “Live Free or Die Hard” falls far short of its potential, so it’s best to crack open a bottle of alcohol to numb the pain of witnessing yet another pointless and over-financed action sequel. TAKE A SHOT... 1. Start with a shot when McClane kills the first bad guy, celebrating the fact that even though he’s over 50, this NYPD still kicks ass. 2. Take a few random shots early to numb...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SCREENSHOTS: "Live Free Or Die Hard" | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

Using the device, by all accounts, is also a pain. The oversized page-turn buttons make it difficult to touch without paging halfway through your summer reading. Copy protection also makes it difficult, and in some cases pricey, to get books you already own on and off of your machine. PDF support is nearly nonexistent. And though Kindle’s 90,000 book selection is an improvement over past e-book readers, it is tiny relative to Amazon’s inventory (or Widener’s, for that matter...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Stick to Hardcover | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...Kulalert’s] condition was non-life threatening; he had a cut lip and was complaining of pain in the leg,” said Cambridge Police Department spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello...

Author: By Noah S. Bloom and Anna L. Tong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Student Hit By Car Near Fogg | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...year-old boy named Josh Evans. She then befriended Megan, trying to get the latest gossip on her own daughter, until finally she turned on the girl and told Megan she was “a bad person and everybody hates you.” The pain was too much, and Megan killed herself shortly after receiving these very mean messages...

Author: By Shai D. Bronshtein | Title: Criminalizing Meanness | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

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