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...History, Politics, and Culture,” is set to launch in June of 2008. “This journal is meant to be written in a jargon-free, accessible way,” McMillian said. “It’s written for scholars, but we shun the myopic form you sometimes find in academia, so we can reach both scholars and public intellectuals.” He said the journal will include interviews with people of the era, book reviews, poetry, and perhaps graphics. Michael S. Foley, an associate professor of history at the City University...
...leak from your body. He outlawed basketball games and television and holidays, and when a child was mauled by a Rottweiler, he ordered that all the dogs in town be rounded up and killed. Men who fell out of favor were excommunicated, their wives reassigned, their children told to shun them...
...most universal and well-studied of psychological phenomena, and the research suggests that Craig, Haggard and the others may be guilty not so much of moral hypocrisy as moral weakness. The distinction may sound trivial at first, but as a society, we tend to forgive the weak and shun the hypocritical. As psychologists Jamie Barden of Howard University, Derek Rucker of Northwestern and Richard Petty of Ohio State have shown, we often use a simple temporal cue to distinguish between the weak and the hypocritical: if you say one thing and then do another, you are much less likely...
...fine print gives poorer, sicker Americans the shaft. For the most part, however, this liberal loathing has been based on instinctive mistrust, with no scientific way to assess GOP indifference--or to separate those Republicans with whom liberals can do business from the hard-hearted monsters they should shun...
...look forward to bringing our peers together through constructive dialogue in the future, for those who refuse to engage in real-life dialogue on the basis of presumed foreignness only shun the opportunity to broaden their perspectives and learn from their fellow students—and that’s the honest truth...