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...Harvard, students are encouraged to critically engage every dimension of our lives except one: religion. Such peculiar institutional myopia harms students and reveals an unfortunate inconsistency in Harvard’s pursuit of its motto, Veritas. In truth, since religion is a no less prevalent nor less valuable form of diversity as race and class, the university should encourage discussion of this facet of the human experience as well. Harvard should also ensure that those who are unsure of their beliefs can be accommodated and not grant de facto preferential treatment to those with a religious affiliation...
Have a heart. It's what Democrats like to think they do best. So President Obama's reaction to the economic crisis has been a predictable spending of trillions to soften the blow. But compassion can have consequences that aren't so compassionate - a nettlesome economic truth that now needs to be applied as Congress plans to extend unemployment benefits for the fifth time since the dark fog of recession settled...
...appreciation for Lev Grossman increased exponentially after reading his article "Overcoming Phobias" [Jan. 11]. Writing about his fear of other people eating was courageous. I have overcome several phobias and consider myself fear-free today. I believe that my success resulted from taking the risk of telling the truth about myself...
Some physiological and psychological studies do give girls the big gold star for communication skills and boys gold stars for spatial acumen, which is correlated with mathematical ability, but the truth is not so simple...
...accident that the documentary An Inconvenient Truth opens with a satellite image of Hurricane Katrina bearing inexorably down on a helpless New Orleans. Since hurricanes draw their destructive power from heat in seawater, you would expect that global warming would intensify these terrifying storms and multiply their number, leading to increased devastation on land. All other things being equal, that's probably what would happen...