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...therein lies the difficulty. The financial and political drivers of AIDS research and prevention strategies have an interest in the outcome of any such scientific inquiry. For the conventional wisdom on the subject seeks to form a conclusion not, like science, that is independent of and unprejudiced by the imprecise and unverifiable tenets of morality or religion, but rather one that explicitly undermines them...
...nature. The tenets of theology or the moral virtues—the most important knowledge for the soul—may have had greater priority in previous societies. Yet the innovation of our age has been to discredit such matters as necessarily spurious and speculative and thus not the subject of real intellectual activity. What matters to moderns is the data—and in its slavish devotion to the data, science gained its intellectual pre-eminence...
...child soldier, Keitetsi inspired him to write something larger in scope. Iweala decided to set his novel in a fictional country in West Africa, but he felt that he had to understand the world of a child soldier before he could begin writing. He began reading texts on the subject and interviews with former child soldiers, as well as talking to survivors of the Nigerian Civil War of the 1960s. “You can’t write about it unless you know the rules and regulations of the world you are creating,” Iweala says. Writing...
...certain circles in the city, Bersin is a verb. Bersin is a punch line. Bersin is the boogeyman. Yet outside San Diego, Bersin and his education work are the subject of academic research and think tanks." (San Diego Union-Tribune...
...question of Kazmi's fee was then the subject of a heated exchange. Kazmi had made a request for a special undisclosed fee, different from what would normally be granted to a court-appointed lawyer in Mumbai - Rs. 900 (about $18) for the entire case. The fee is shockingly small even by the standards of India's poorly paid junior lawyers, but the prosecutor in the case, Ujwal Nikam, objected vehemently to Kazmi's request. He argued that making an exception would encourage other court-appointed lawyers to demand special fees in future cases. Qasab's lawyer was supposed...