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“Rabbi Hazan?” I asked meekly as I opened the door and 17 surprised faces met my sheepish one. It was Rosh Hashanah and I was Jewish in Rome, home of all things Catholic.An Orthodox woman dressed in a long-sleeved shirt and below-the...
There's no such thing as balancing the truth. It's a well-done straw man, probably a creation of marketers, not journalists. If a fact is staring you in the face, you don't balance a fact with a non-fact.
Lie to Me's premise is timely and depressing: everybody lies. (The pilot face-analyzes Dick Cheney, Eliot Spitzer and various notorious celebs to drive home the point; expect a Bernard Madoff reference any episode now.) "The average person tells three lies in 10 minutes of conversation," Lightman crisply informs...
Before returning to our building, I can't help but stare at it for a moment and think that our homes might not always be safe places. But still they give us a sense of warmth, security and protection that is worth fighting for till the very end. I also...
3. On the tendency to glorify the past: "Do not hold yourself to a mythologized standard of the past in which everyone's attention was focused on only one task at a time. It turns out that when researchers studied engineers working in the early 1990s (before the BlackBerry era...