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This week two very smart Christian believers - one by extending an invitation, the other by accepting it - have helped the fight against AIDS and burnished their respective reputations. But in the process, they also created a defining dilemma for the Religious Right...
...Vilsack is smart to get started early. The outgoing Iowa Governor declared he was running for president only two days after the midterm elections and this week kicks off a five-day announcement tour through all the states that have early primaries - Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, along with his native Pennsylvania. In announcing his candidacy, Vilsack acknowledged the long odds, telling a crowd in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, that "I have always been an underdog and a long shot." He cast himself as a candidate with "the courage to create change", a phrase he invoked repeatedly in calling...
...There will always be a more privileged, better-connected applicant. Nehamas says that his family’s connections to the school won’t be enough. His cousin, whose mother teaches at the medical school, applied early years ago. She was ultimately rejected. “Very smart, great grades, and she actually didn’t get in,” says Nehamas...
This leads to candidates who do not further the debate but instead confuse it. Some may argue that Harvard students are smart enough to see through the fog of hopeless promises, but many Harvard students are too uninformed about the UC’s inner workings to know the difference between a good idea and a bad idea that sounds good...
Ever wonder how that oh-so-smart thing inside your noggin is working? Sure, most of us have some concept of what we think is going on in our minds, some of us much more than others, but did you ever want to know where common sense comes from, or the concept of the self...