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Faith and Longevity If belief in a pill can be so powerful, belief in God and the teachings of religion - which touch devout people at a far more profound level than mere pharmacology - ought to be even more so. One way to test this is simply to study the health of regular churchgoers. Social demographer Robert Hummer of the University of Texas has been following a population of subjects since 1992, and his results are hard to argue with. Those who never attend religious services have twice the risk of dying over the next eight years as people who attend...
...responsibility. According to Tajzadeh, the pressure on him, "combined with the terrible situation of the country," has made Khatami feel a social obligation to run against Ahmadinejad. A victory by the reformist leader who promoted domestic liberalization and accommodation with the West on the international front would mark a profound political shift from Ahmadinejad, whose foreign policy has been based on an uncompromising defiance. But victory is far from certain, and that may be one reason Khatami has agreed...
...exploring the freshmen transition and their struggle to combine Harvard’s expectations with their own. “I’m trying to reveal the limbo, the in-between period,” Costello said. “It’s such a profound time of transformation. The nuances of the shift for each individual each had their own way of falling onto the film.”While Costello documented students’ discoveries of what it means to be a Harvard student, Isidore M. T. Bethel ’11 applied a standard Harvard...
...designate also studied under Tribe at the Law School. Fallon, also a professor of constitutional law, praised Tribe’s work yesterday, saying that his contribution to the field made it only fitting that a Law School professorship bear his name. “It is obviously a profound tribute to Professor Tribe who has been an absolute mainstay of the constitutional law curriculum,” Fallon said. “He’s a scholar who has been the inspiration for a number of faculty over the years.” —Staff writer...
...Monde. "But now there's real anger. Banks have announced positive results for 2008 after the state extended over $26 billion in aid to them - even as some bankers resist government demands for something in return by trying to hang on to their bonuses. That feeds a feeling of profound injustice in public opinion that could give rise to a revolt...