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...realize that my lack of entitlement broadcast my insignificance. The way to establish your cachet is not to reject free stuff but to demand tremendous amounts of it. And there is no limit to how much can be had because as much as the rich are willing to take, corporations are willing to give even more...
...ministers in creationism and other central tenets of Christianity.Three hundred and sixty-nine years later, in the midst of a national debate about God’s place in the classroom, even the University’s divinity faculty—the heirs to that theological mission—reject the latest argument for God’s role in creation: “intelligent design.”The national debate about intelligent design marks the latest front in the battle between proponents of teaching creationism and evolution in public schools. The century-old debate, which reached a pinnacle...
...leadership, which in turn has inspired a broader range of people and institutions - from banks to think tanks - to support Aboriginal initiatives. Leaders, such as Noel Pearson from Cape York, now speak of ownership, responsibility and individuality; urging indigenous people to be mainstream, mobile, acquisitive and ambitious, and to reject the so-called "sit-down money" of welfare. The Moree jobs model, with its ethos of pride, self-reliance and social mobility, fits the new thinking, and is now on the move. In the past few years, the AES has opened offices in the N.S.W. regional centers of Tamworth...
...brood on injustice and eventually come up with a seemingly justifiable religious reason to destroy others who, by the sweat of their brow, are managing to provide for their families. Most of us don't murder innocent humans because we are frustrated by our situation in life, and we reject the excuses of those who do. Susan Star Durban, South Africa Admirable, Not Heroic? re Time's list of "European Heroes 2005" [Oct. 10]: I dispute your selection of Frenchwoman Maud Fontenoy, who rowed across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a small boat. Certainly she has courage, determination, strength...
...misleading hypothetical. Suppose, they argue, authorities hold a terrorist with information about a ticking time bomb, and if they torture him to get the information they will be able to save hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. Those who oppose torture are called naïve because they reject the conclusion that torture would be justified in such a case. But the analogy itself demonstrates a misunderstanding about the complexities of intelligence gathering...