Word: scepticism
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...centrality of faith to culture without the author's pious participation. From his astounding breakthrough work, Midnight's Children, through his current The Enchantress of Florence, he has been obsessed with both formal and informal belief, but from the point of view of a highly-educated Muslim-born sceptic. This potentially flammable combination combusted in 1989 when Iran's then supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, sanctioned Rushdie's execution by the faithful for alleged blasphemies in his fictional exploration of Islam's origins, The Satanic Verses...
...desperate to avoid making a similar mistake," says Daniel Gros, the director of the Center for European Policy Studies. That's why British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insists that the treaty be ratified by the British Parliament, not a popular referendum. Opinion polls show that E.U.'s most euro-sceptic nation would reject the treaty as convincingly as French and Dutch voters...
...Berenger's office make a fair accounting for themselves -- no more. Buddy Mear as Papillon does a nice job of caricaturing The Boss, Peter Wirth as the sceptic Botard gets too loud too fast, Richard Petkun as Dudar, the office commer, has no poise whatsoever...
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...science and society. He does not want to stick his neck out or get his feelings "mixed up" in things. He knows that strong feelings are as dangerous as disease, having read articles like "Emotion Can Give You a Running Nose." He is a pragmatist, a materialist, a "healthy sceptic," a "tough realist" -and Author Whitman warns-he is "as inadequate to our time as a bow-and-arrow on a 20th century battlefield...