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...INDIA The Golden Temple Not for the high-maintenance tourist, this vast Sikh temple in Amritsar operates a hostel and a community kitchen. With about 40,000 mouths to feed each day, service is spotty, but who cares? Room and board are free...
...Australia's many untamed expanses, Arnhem Land, the vast spread of savannah, swamps and crocodile-infested rivers on the northeastern tip of the Northern Territory, remains one of the wildest. A handful of settlements dot its 95,000-sq.-km area, and the unsealed 750-km road that crosses it is passable only in the dry season. When anthropologist Donald Thomson, whose writings on this enigmatic region will be republished this month in Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land (Miegunyah Press; 264 pages), arrived there just 70 years ago, it was also feared by many whites, who had heard stories...
Colorado needs to take drastic action with a coach who is unable to model or demand such behavior. Barnett is not the disciplinarian they had hoped for, and worse, he is of the same mindset as the players he defends. Vast reforms will soon need to be made and a firing should be first on that list...
...made considerable progress, thanks to the enormous hard work of many people. It is important that we approach what remains to be done as a collective community venture, where what is at stake is our health, our values and our sense of common well-being. Very good people, of vast integrity and commitment, are trying to make sense of these problems and fix them as rapidly as possible. Harvard’s mental health system is vigorous, ample, resilient, responsive and without question among the best in the country. Is there room to make it better? Yes, and together...
...Goriest Story Ever Told"), which was maybe the only mixed review the film got. And I wrote about some of the attacks on Gibson and his "Passion" ("Holy Hypocrisies") on this web site. In the day since that was posted, I've received more than 150 e-mails, the vast majority of them with subject headings like "Thank you," "Well put," "Bravo," Kudos," "Amen, brother," "Loved the article!" and "wow." Most of the notes cheered me for pointing out what reader David Tuggy called "the deep intolerance of the professionally tolerant." And while any old leftie is naturally squeamish about...