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...perform about his life and work. Sixteen-time Academy Award nominee, and 2003 Academy Award winner for Best Original Song, Newman is known for his diverse music compositions ranging from New Orleans jazz and ragtime to movie soundtracks to R&B pop. His stylistic pieces often play and reflect upon American Society and will be hard to forget. Performance is presented by Learning From Performers, dedicated to giving students an opportunity to converse with professional artists. The show will be hosted by Jack Megan. 8 p.m. Tickets $10 General Admission, free for students (2 per I.D) until...
...major newspapers and television networks eagerly reported on the self-mutilation ritual before it was overshadowed by terror attacks in Karbala and Baghdad later that day. Though the coverage varied in style and tone, the skewed focus on Ashura’s violent rather than religious aspects seemed to reflect the media’s prejudices as much more than the holiday itself. “Look at these people,” the news reports seemed to say. “look at this evidence of their fanaticism, their love of violence, at just how unlike us they really...
...blastocysts in a petri dish do not evoke our reflexive compassion the way those individuals suffering from awful, incurable diseases do. And indeed, if emotion were the sole determinant of one’s position, he or she would undoubtedly favor stem-cell research. But public policy should not reflect a hasty utilitarian calculus born of sentimentality; it should reflect logic flowing from scrupulous moral deliberation. That may seem a callous thing to say, especially given the heartfelt appeals for stem-cell research from the likes of Michael J. Fox, who is afflicted with Parkinson’s disease...
...most athletes, winning their conference championship is a time to celebrate and reflect on the season’s success. Of course, making program history makes that reaction even more natural...
...that the same goes for us all: We make rapid judgments about everyone we meet based on nonverbal cues, physical appearance and gestures. These first impressions are emotional, irrational reactions that quickly concretize into permanent opinions. Maybe our initial judgments stick because they really are accurate and continue to reflect the other people’s personalities long after we’ve met them. Maybe eons ago, natural selection favored the ability to make perfunctory and permanent character judgments. But more likely our impressions stick because they just make life easier. They act like cognitive shortcuts—interpretive...