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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What the elect don't know, but Allen insists on, is that the state of grace they enjoy is not secular sainthood. That is to say, it is generally unearned by good works and suffering. It is, at best, a capricious cosmic joke and therefore nothing to get puffed up about. "I've become the kind of woman I've always hated," Robin says wonderingly at the end of her journey, "but I'm happier." There's a moral buried inside that irony. Or maybe it's the nasty core truth of our times. Whatever it is, Celebrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Wages Of Fame | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...Friday the 13th. Again. While some Harvard students may spend their day avoiding ladders, mirrors and stray black cats at all cost, the Harvard Secular Society (HSS) will hold an "hour-long superstition bash" in front of the Science Center...

Author: By Adam M. Taub, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Secularists Rail Against Superstition | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

With an audience composed of skeptics and avid fans of "The X-Files," the Harvard Secular Society's presentation "Skeptics vs. The X-Files: The Paranormal and the Media" drew mixed responses from a crowd of 50 last night in the Science Center...

Author: By Esther S. Yoo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Skeptics Find Fault With Media Portrayals of Paranormal | 11/3/1998 | See Source »

...mission of the Harvard Secular Society, a group of atheists and agnostics, already closely matches that of the skeptics, however...

Author: By Esther S. Yoo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Skeptics Find Fault With Media Portrayals of Paranormal | 11/3/1998 | See Source »

Derek C. Araujo '99, president of the Harvard Secular Society, explained, "like the skeptics, the Secular Society is interested in critical thinking. We regard uncritically accepted ideas of the paranormal to be similar to those of religion. We were interested in what Mr. Nisbet had to say about the potentially harmful effects...

Author: By Esther S. Yoo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Skeptics Find Fault With Media Portrayals of Paranormal | 11/3/1998 | See Source »

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