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...them committed to mental hospitals. A poll carried out by the Madrid-based Center for Sociological Investigation showed that 66% of people were in favor of same-sex marriages, compared to 26% opposed. "It just shows how far Spain has come in a relatively short time," says Madrid teacher Isabel Flores. "There was much more outrage when divorce or abortion were legalized. Now, it seems as if only the lunatic fringe [is] really against gay marriages...
...was pleased that your list included Indonesia's Dina Astita, the teacher and survivor of the Indian Ocean tsunami who is coordinating efforts to restart schooling in her remote Sumatra town. It was a great relief and pleasure to read about someone who isn't a millionaire or an internationally known religious figure. Ordinary people like Astita who can overcome tragedy and put a positive idea in motion are the ones who are truly influencing and changing our world...
...International Affairs Stephen Walt wrote of his election into the Academy in an e-mail. “One never knows quite why some people are selected and others are not, but I assume it is partly a response to scholarship, partly to my broader work as a teacher, editor, and administrator, and partly due to plain good luck...
...record, I agree.) They actually stood up and stopped a mechanism of the powerful system they hated, just by being funny. As one friend who was there told me, it was like a politically-motivated version of the day your high school class successfully thwarted the substitute teacher...
After I moved to a secular school, the contradictions continued. I eagerly took to heart an essay my eighth grade history teacher made us read that said “all religions are paths up the same mountain.†I pondered becoming a Jew-dhist when I learned the philosophy of Buddhism later in the year. But I grew uncomfortable when the same class spent just a bit too long discussing the story of “how the Jews killed Jesus.†Religious coexistence, I realized, was never that simple...