Word: realm
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...problem for our First Lady is that hers is not an office from which one resigns. Hers is not even an office. She is not an official but a spouse, leaving her in an unenviable position. Residing in a grey realm, miscolored by the press, but unable to leave through the emergency exit door to which her predecessors turned, Hillary Clinton is forced to stick around and endure the verdict, for all intents and purposes already delivered...
This objectification of sex has effected incalculable damage on the mental psyche of American youth. The sexual realm is one of youth's most formative experiences; it becomes value neutral along with sexual practice. Could such a black hole of morality be the cause behind a return to religion at Harvard? Most definitely; students have become overwhelmed by the nebulous and ultimately unsatisfactory state of momentary knowledge. They are searching for greater, more absolute truths and moralities that fall precisely within the realm of the University. Yet Harvard remains aloof in the debate over a value-less world. The disturbing...
...inhospitable as both these worlds seem, their discovery, announced two weeks ago by San Francisco State University astronomers Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler, has thrown an almost wholly speculative area of study solidly into the realm of tangible fact. Despite years of searching with the most powerful telescopes, despite decades of listening for the faint crackle of radio signals from distant civilizations, despite endless theorizing about how life might or might not arise, nobody had ever found concrete evidence to suggest that our planet, our civilization, our life-forms were anything but unique in the cosmos...
Similar reasoning applies to evolution. According to the orthodox view, Darwinian selection is utterly blind. Any impression that the transition from microbes to man represents progress is pure chauvinism on our part. The path of evolution is merely a random walk through the realm of possibilities...
Indeed, the discovery of respective integrities is one of the most noble projects of higher education. It's to the impoverishment of each of us as faithful individuals, and all of us as citizens of the human community, that we neglect it in the realm of the spirit. And it's work we can only do together...