Word: soule
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...newspaper, Liechtensteiner Vaterland, said she was "using Liechtenstein like a whetstone to sharpen her claws." Günther Fritz, Vaterland's editor-in-chief, says, "We're not a very patriotic people, but under pressure from Germany, everyone is banding together." Bankgeheimnis - bank secrecy - may not stir the human soul the way liberté, egalité, fraternité does, but it seems to work in Liechtenstein...
...meditation thereon he has written THE THING ABOUT LIFE IS THAT ONE DAY YOU'LL BE DEAD (Knopf; 225 pages), a double memoir-commonplace book in which he presents his and his father's life stories, lovingly encrusted with facts about aging and death (it turns out your soul doesn't weigh 21 grams after all, and your hair and nails do not keep growing postmortem) and quotations ("After 30, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death"--Emerson). The result is an edifying, wise, unclassifiable mixture of filial love...
...will only enhance the insights and experiences which they bring back to campus and share with their peers. Yet, while the bridge year program shows great promise, we worry that an overly institutionalized and professionally organized gap year may offer students less growth. Individual initiative, spontaneous travel, and heedless soul-searching are what make this time off before college so valuable and unique to each student who partakes. By potentially transforming the gap year into another box to check on the road to a successful career, Princeton’s program may jeopardize the ability of students to shape...
More interesting is the contest for what amounts to the soul of this den of thieves. There is a communist among them, a man intent upon sabotaging their efforts. He's a man full of noble speeches and ready to sacrifice all of their lives in order to foil the Nazi's plan, not because he disapproves of it, but because it is an act of resistance...
...outright condemnation, and never has a movement equal in force and influence arisen to counter the extremists. Why don't the moderates stand up? That's a question posed not just in Pakistan but across the Muslim world and indeed in the West. In Pakistan, the battle for the soul of Islam will determine the country's place in the world: whether it can take the lead as a modern Muslim nation, or whether it crumbles under the forces of extremism. This is Pakistan's holy war, and the first shot across the bow was the very idea that brought...