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...former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s death 10 years ago spurred a heated debate about his legacy last night. The evening, organized by Harvard Hillel, began with people sharing their personal thoughts about Rabin and a collective chant of the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer. Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995. But the atmosphere in the crowded Adams Lower Common quickly changed from elegiac to combative when the panel discussion began. Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse accused Rabin of legitimating terrorism and betraying his voters by negotiating...
...Emmylou Harris Cowgirl's Prayer (Asylum). In her 22nd album country music's hippest traditionalist turns to God as the best part of life: wise parent, firm friend, ultimate beau. This sheaf of fine songs, intimate readings and delicately powerful melodies makes divine love sound like a kiss in the back of a pickup. If there's a honky-tonk in heaven, Harris will be the star act on stage...
...film is the striking depictions of the bleak geography of the West Bank: dusty olive groves; graffiti-streaked concrete walls; bustling markets; and oppressive barbed wire fences. The everyday life of residents of the city of Nablus is punctuated by the humiliation of checkpoints, reverberating calls to prayer, and the occasional sound of a bomb exploding. The film blatantly contrasts this oppressive landscape with the polished city of Tel Aviv, and the juxtaposition intentionally induces empathetic shock...
...children of impoverished, largely Muslim immigrants from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa fought running battles with police throughout the banlieues, or suburbs, to the east and north of the French capital. On Sunday night, tear gas from a police canister filled the air in a Muslim prayer hall, sending worshipers out into the street gasping for air-and enraged at an act of desecration for which the police denied responsibility. By Wednesday, after five nights of violence, more than three dozen arrests had been made as the rioting spread from community to community-one official even warned that...
Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, has become popular only in recent years. It traces its remote origins in part to the teachings of a Greek philosopher, Epictetus, a former slave who developed a science of happiness. Perhaps the best-known expression of Epictetus' philosophy is the Serenity Prayer, attributed to the Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous: "God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference...