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...humanity and his hope for the alleviation of its suffering. Bottom Line: The juxtaposition of violence and beauty, of blatant subtlety and masked naivety, elevate the simple story line of Gavin Hood’s “Tsotsi” to an Oscar-winning, emotionally profound masterpiece...
...abstract terms in their discussions of atheism, preferring phrases like “empirical evidence” and “scientific method” to explain their views. But “faith” is not a word Epstein avoids.“I think Humanists are profound believers,” he says, “because it takes faith and it takes courage to decide that if there’s no overarching meaning to life that’s given to you by the universe, you have to decide that your life can be meaningful...
...fast. A few years ago, a bomb attack on a holy Hindu site would have sparked riots. A few months ago, there would have seemed little doubt that Islamist groups linked to Pakistan carried it out. That neither is a certainty today reflects a nation, and a subcontinent, in profound change...
...talk of prevention involving drugs alarms psychiatry's skeptics, who would question whether it's feasible to target something as vague as pre-onset depression. That goal would become especially problematic should the research lead to wider use of antidepressants, shown to cause moderate to profound agitation in 7% of users. And will people need a dna test to find out their genetic vulnerability to depression? There is probably some personality marker for the high-risk genotype, says Parker. Despite a trawl of the data, however, "we haven't found it yet. We've looked at all varieties of anxiety...
...Antichrist. As Harvard students, we have a responsibility to attack bigotry when it rears its head in our community. We might think that we are showing respect to the Harvard community by pulling our punches when fellow students cross the line, but, in reality, we are showing a profound disrespect to a broader community that still faces serious injustice and brutal discrimination...