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...English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that watching Edmund Kean, the great tragedian of the London stage 200 years ago, was like "reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." That's how we like our great moments in history to be, surrounded by drama, attended by heroes. By those standards, the process that led to the signing of the Treaty of Rome 50 years ago was almost ineffably mundane - a series of long meetings of forgotten bureaucrats in rooms foul with tobacco smoke. No blood was shed, few memorable speeches made; the heroes were those who could cajole a compromise into...
When he got the call from the Templeton Foundation a few weeks ago, Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor admits he was totally surprised. That's because the past few winners of the annual Templeton Prize, worth more than $1.5 million and awarded "for progress toward research or discoveries about spiritual realities," has been given to scientists - physicists and cosmologists mostly, who have been willing to acknowledge that science alone can't necessarily explain the nature of the universe. It's clear that the foundation was consciously trying to counter the widespread impression that science and spirituality are inevitably at odds...
...Wednesday at a press conference in New York City, Taylor, 75, a professor at Northwestern University and professor emeritus at McGill University in Montreal, was proclaimed the latest Templeton laureate for his work in trying to bring a spiritual dimension, not to the sciences but to the humanities and social sciences - fields that overwhelmingly influence public policy, and thus affect peoples' lives directly. Taylor has argued in essays and scholarly articles that by failing to take individuals' spiritual needs into account and focusing only on the economic and political, politicians and social theorists have left out a crucial avenue...
...Taylor, the first Canadian to win the award in its 35-year history, says he'll use the money to fund his work on the relation of "relationship of language and linguistic meaning to art and theology and to developing new concepts of relating human sciences with biological sciences." That's the sort of high-minded thinking to be expected of an academic philosopher. But the Templeton folks are expecting a more immediate and practical result from Taylor's selection: they're looking to start an online discussion of what role spiritual thinking should have in the 21st century...
...color photograph of Gerber, Adomat responded that the male in the picture "was not the male victim that he had observed and attempted to work on." Adomat said the male victim was much darker, but he added that the face had been badly damaged. Hembree also interviewed Bill Taylor, an employee at the crematorium where the bodies were cremated. He said he had seen the entire body of the female victim and described her as a young woman of Asian descent, in her 30s and about the same height as the male victim. Gerber's wife is from the Philippines...