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...class, and not speaking RP was a distinct disadvantage," she says. It's a common perception. According to the Department of Trade and Industry's Fair Treatment at Work Survey 2005 (published this June), accent was named as a cause of unfair treatment more often than race, gender or religion. "Students generally want RP," Hughes says. "Some want to sound like the people they work with - the way the majority of educated Londoners speak." He calls it "lazy RP," using less precision than a newsreader. So is lazy RP in the cards for me? Hughes has me read that fine...
...Pontiff Has a Point His take on Islam, however clumsy, raises tough truths about reason and religion...
...Forced Argument on Forced Conversions Viewpoint: Kidnapped journalists converting at gunpoint. The Pope quoting a 14th century Byzantine emperor. The sudden focus on forced conversions to Islam reflects a fundamental misreading of that religion's history
...when we perceive it. I don't believe in the Big Bang any more than I buy the parting of the Red Sea. The supposed noise from the Big Bang could just be noise from everyday creation and destruction occurring in the universe. Unfortunately, a lot of science and religion has evolved into fantasies that provide grandiose explanations for questions that might never be answered...
...only weird, ectoplasmic Internet relationship. My life is increasingly being invaded by these people. There's a woman (or a man, or possibly a robot) named MoFlo4Sho who e-mails me a couple of dozen times a day with her various insane thoughts about religion and celebrities. It's one of the singular features of our little social-technological moment that people all over the world whom we otherwise would never even be aware of can effortlessly impinge upon our minds and lives and desktops. We probably see fewer people in person these days, but our lives are populated...