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...hoped your article would deliver the goods and tell me what it is that makes me special, putting to rest a long-standing suspicion that I am not. I am similar, in some ways even identical, to millions of other humans. Do I really, truly matter, or will I sooner or later be forgotten? Well, Ridley's article--I can't say I'm surprised--failed to deliver. While it's reassuring to hear that scientists are finally losing their infatuation with all the hype about genes as the final word on human nature, it's just as apparent that...
...country claim that the arrest of the three Thais, announced just hours before the Thaksin-Bush meeting, had the whiff of a publicity stunt. In the Muslim south, an area already weighed down by corruption, poverty and violence, the arrest of three prominent citizens has been met with suspicion. "People down here are shocked and angry," says Chid-chanok Rahimula, a political scientist at the Prince of Songkhla University in Pattani in southern Thailand and an acquaintance of one of the accused, Dr. Waemahadi. "The three are all well-known and well-respected in the south. No one here believes...
...pity that this is what draws the communities together, saying 'We want to kill animals like we've always done'." The perception that their traditions are being threatened for what many see as spurious reasons taps into what, for Muslims and Jews alike, are deep reserves of suspicion. And though most critics of ritual slaughter are driven by concern for animals, there are those who would curtail Jewish and Muslim traditional practices out of bias. Until both communities feel fully at ease following their faith in Europe, it will continue to be difficult for them to distinguish one from...
While Harvard’s leaders would not allow any communist faculty on campus—a virtual impossibility in the tense climate of the 1950s—they did pledge to safeguard the intellectual liberty of the University and supported a tenured professor who came under suspicion...
...explain to the lady at the counter what had happened only a minute before. Please, I begged, don’t charge this to me. Luckily, it was easier convincing her of my innocence than the higher-ups at The Crimson, who from then on eyed me with suspicion...