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...Peter Moskos, a professor at the City University of New York, obtained special permission from the Baltimore Police Department to serve as a policeman for one year, and “Cop in the Hood” is the result. His book offers an intensely personal perspective on the hopelessness of city life, revealed through his experiences with Baltimore drug traffickers, addicts, and police officers. In “Cop,” Moskos is able to take a real hard look at drug crime in America and find human beings in that hardscrabble world...
...Kargman says. Despite receiving a “total rebuff,” Kargman auditioned and was admitted. “It was me and the senior crew,” she says of the influential semester.Similarly, Kargman has been intent on pursuing a special concentration since her first week on campus. With the help of mentors Robert Scanlon and Deborah Foster, Kargman has crafted Theater Studies, which uses the lens of theater to study English and psychology—a combination Kargman calls “pre-med for acting.”“The ideas...
...than war, but it costs money to empower people. When you empower people you promote peace. Conflict resolution is important. The environment is very, very important so we need to stop the corporate control of our foreign and domestic policy. Fighting poverty is another major issue; when we resist special interests we get better at it, but why can't we fight poverty in America and around the world? It all goes back to conflict resolution. It all goes back to paying attention to the environment. These small things are all consciousness things. Young people are more open-minded...
...television crews flocked this week to the friar-saint's final resting place, San Giovanni Rotondo, a kind of Las Vegas-meets-Bethlehem hilltop pilgrimage destination. They were there to see the exhumed corpse of Padre Pio, which had been put on display in a glass casket, with a special silicon mask - beard, bushy eyebrows and all - created by London-based wax museum artisans. Everyone knows what John Paul II felt about Padre Pio. But how can Benedict, the intellectually rigorous theologian, dubbed "the Pope of Reason," sanction such widespread belief in faith-healing and emotional attachments to icons...
...kind of "popular piety" that has built up around Padre Pio and other Church figures and relics, with its promise of special powers and healing the sick, is seen by some critics as veering toward superstition. Benedict has not condemned it, but he has made a point of slowing the output of his predecessor's so-called "saint factory," which during John Paul's 26-year papacy produced hundreds of canonizations...