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...poisoned, someone needs to act the peacemaker. If people are stiff, someone needs to act the clown. There is something dishonest and contrived about this arrangement, to be sure. If students were naturally enthusiastic about the course material (and did the reading), they would have lively interchanges in spite of their personalities. Perhaps so, but if good discussion does not occur organically, the next best option is to induce it artificially. Charlie E. Riggs ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Quincy House...

Author: By Charlie E. Riggs | Title: Be That Kid | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...wanted," she wrote Périer in 1955. A year later she sounded desolate: "Such deep longing for God - and ... repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. - [The saving of] Souls holds no attraction - Heaven means nothing - pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

...spite of the fact that many of the more common cancers, including skin cancer and lung cancer, are associated with behaviors such as sunbathing and smoking early in life, 25% of respondents believed that such behaviors do not increase long-term cancer risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Five Cancer Misconceptions | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...fair starts out rampant and eager and ends with balloons sagging and stomachs queasy--which is not a bad summary of life itself. This is why the fair survives, drawing an estimated 150 million visitors in counties and states across the country each summer, in spite of theme parks and arcades of infinitely greater sophistication, in spite of Orlando, in spite of Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Day at The Fair | 7/12/2007 | See Source »

...spite of all that, according to the new TIME poll, only 15% of registered voters believe that Hillary Clinton is "strongly religious," compared to 22% for John Edwards and 24% for Barack Obama. Perhaps more problematic for Clinton is the fact that nearly one-quarter of respondents (24%) say they know she is "not religious" - that's almost twice the nearest candidate, Rudy Giuliani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Poll: Faith of the Candidates | 7/12/2007 | See Source »

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