Word: reasoner
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...20th century when Thailand annexed it. While members of both faiths have been killed by Muslim militants, as a proportion of the population more Buddhists have perished. This year looks set to eclipse 2008 in terms of bloodshed. Victims of the extremists, who generally decline to publicly articulate the reason for their terror campaign, range from rubber tappers and teachers to Buddhist monks and Muslim imams, as well as soldiers and police. Just a few years ago, neighbors of different religions used to mingle, but the carnage has frayed such bonds. "The communities have become alienated from each other," says...
...cutting grass, pumping gas, going shopping, walking to school. Death itself, with hood and scythe, could not have been more random, more remorseless, more unnerving. Or more pointless. When at last the snipers--John Allen Muhammad and his juvenile accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo--were caught, they had so little reason for murder that they hardly even tried to explain themselves. There was the older man's anger, the younger man's loneliness, a quarter-baked extortion plot. Late on Nov. 10, in a Virginia prison, it was Muhammad who paid the final price. With relatives of his victims watching...
Everyone - or at least everyone who claims to be happy - has some reason for finding the upside to the downturn. Mine has to do with the end of Expectation Inflation, a phenomenon that can be as corrosive to our spirits as price inflation is to our savings. Expectations are a mash-up of hope and conceit, what you've earned and what you imagine luck might hand you as a bonus for just showing up. So what did it mean that over the past generation our expectations grew so big so fast that we had effectively supersized the American Dream...
There's something poignant in that picture about the yearning for a universe of reason and order that those right angles symbolized at a time when Germany was gradually going insane. By the mid-1920s, the Bauhaus was under steady pressure from the conservative government of Thuringia, which funded the school but regarded it as a left-wing, bohemian swindle. When the provincial legislature stopped paying faculty salaries in 1925, the Bauhaus relocated to the more welcoming industrial city of Dessau, where it eventually occupied its famously forward-looking new building designed by Gropius. But a few years later...
...stress the environment is reflected in our list, once again ably edited by senior writer Lev Grossman. One glowing exception to the trend is our invention of the year. We chose the Ares I rocket not only because it's a marvel of engineering but also for a symbolic reason: it's a link between a horrific past (the V-2 rocket used by Germany during World War II) and an optimistic future, in which we reclaim the dream of traveling to other planets...