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...Certainly. Many Christians focus more on Jesus' teaching about relationships - loving God and one's neighbor, caring for the sick, the poor, those in prison and destitute - teaching that what God commands is to "love one another." But because it started after Jesus' crucifixion, his followers often have been willing to risk dying for what they see as the sake of the truth. You can see it in the life and death of Martin Luther King, Jr. - his willingness to risk violence and death allowed him to defy those in power and change our society...
...says Hana S. Freymiller. Her classmate, Lindsey N. Fix, has a more creative suggestion. “Ben and Jerry’s Fossil Fuel: for small, amphibious babies,” she says. Hopefully, this refers to the chocolate dinosaurs in the ice cream and not some sick Wellesley fish-baby mutation. It seems that Harvard women are of a similar mind. “I would probably go to CVS and get a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Half-Baked,” says Millicent M. Younger ’10. And then...
There are folks who would wonder why I, a gay boy, would find these episodes funny. They might be appalled at my blockmates’ homophobia, and they might speculate that I pathetically accept their sensibilities, including their sick, hateful sense of humor as the price to pay for their friendship. Some of my friends and I—we all rigorously adhere to an ethic of cultural relativism—call these people, “The Bad People.” They are on par with people who make conversation during television shows, hold opinions about Undergraduate Council...
...criminal investigation of Democrats before the 2006 election. "He said, 'Are these going to be filed before November?'" Iglesias recalled. "I said I didn't think so... to which he replied, 'I'm very sorry to hear that.' And then the line went dead. "I had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach," Iglesias testified. "Six weeks later I got the call that I had to move on." The ousted prosecutor also said that Heather Wilson, a Republican House member from New Mexico, had called him about the same issue...
...Academic Counseling noted in an interview, providing treatment for suicidal students requires a huge commitment of resources that goes far beyond what most colleges are capable of. In addition, the roommates of mentally ill students are unfairly burdened with the stress and anxiety inherent in caring for a profoundly sick friend. In most cases, students who have attempted suicide recognize that they would be better off elsewhere, and the majority of withdrawals “end up being voluntary,” according to Barreira. In the few cases where students and university mental health professionals don?...