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...perfect end in sight, but discarded God’s role in transforming society and handed humans the materials to catalyze progress. Gray details both the demise of Enlightenment thought and its resurrection in “modern revolutionary movements” while tearing apart the banners of present-day neoconservatives, Islamic terrorists, and liberal humanists alike. It may seem counterintuitive to portray Hitler as a child of the Enlightenment, but Gray traces a connection between Hitler’s attempt to remake Germany by force and eliminate Jews who would hinder the triumphal arrival of the Third Reich...
...piece of sidewalk, and performers will arrive earlier to get their position of choice, or instead go elsewhere.According to these performers, there was a time when the area surrounding Harvard was the place to be for the young and hip, and, therefore, for street musicians. For these people, the present-day Harvard Square pales in comparison to its past self.Manny Mederos, a Portuguese guitarist who enjoys covering the likes of Simon and Garfunkel and Neil Young, recalls the overcrowding of Harvard Square in years gone by.“I used to play here a lot, before, when it used...
...Barna polls conducted between 2004 and this year, sampling 440 non-Christians (and a similar number of Christians) aged 16 to 29, found that 38% had a "bad impression" of present-day Christianity. "It's not a pretty picture" the authors write. Barna's clientele is made up primarily of evangelical groups...
...disease that can cause retardation, deafness, and skeletal and superficial deformation. Riedl’s will be one of 15 contemporary documentaries screening in Cambridge this weekend as part of the United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival. The films, chosen from around 400 submissions last October, deal with present-day issues around the world—from civil war in Colombia and the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to an HIV-positive orphan in China and a group of Sierra Leonean refugee musicians. The opening screening will take place at the Kennedy School of Government. The subsequent...
...Woody Allen classic Sleeper, Allen's character, a health food store owner, awakes in the future to discover that everything considered bad for you - namely smoking and eating deep-fried foods - was actually beneficial to your health. What with all our present-day scientific "revelations" about what's bad (or good) for us, I've always believed it was only a matter of time before the premise of Sleeper began to materialize in the real world...