Word: path
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...Farrakhan: It is the role of Christian leaders to take a strong stand against Christians who deviate from the path of Jesus Christ? And is it the duty of Muslims to stand up against that which deviates from the teachings of the Koran and the teachings of prophet Muhammad? Yes, it is our duty...
...stem cell technology? This question is at the center of today’s debate on biomedical budgeting, and Miller gives it short thrift. Still, Miller makes us ponder several sticky questions that face all of medical research, and learning them through xenotransplantation is at least an interesting path...
...probably too familiar. Merely because my family’s story is familiar, however, does not make it any less meaningful, or, more importantly, any less true. Why do I bring this up? Is this just another example of that classic competition among Harvard students to see whose path to this school was the most difficult and unlikely? The ever present “race to the bottom” to see whose family was most hard-pressed and disadvantaged? While some will no doubt think it is self-satisfied back-patting, I think it is a point very relevant...
From that moment forward, Thomas “believes,” thus endowing himself with the magical power to call on the King at a moment’s notice and defeat the giant birds, dragons, and other beasts Demurral places in his path. That this mixture of the sacred and the occult is unsatisfying should come as no surprise. It returns the novel to that familiar, faith-testing question: if the King can defeat everything, how have his enemies gained such strength? (“His ways are not your ways, his thoughts are not your thoughts...
...physician and enjoys a comfortable middle-class existence. Sayeed and his family put a human face on the American “other” that Hasan has come to terrorize, and the remainder of the film chronicles his struggle to reconcile the anger that set him on his path of destruction to his burgeoning feelings of affection for his American hosts. The scenes between Hasan and Sayeed’s sister Duri (Nandana Sen) are especially powerful. Sen’s performance in these scenes demands special notice: she conveys compassion, yearning, and confusion with the poise...