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...accept that there is nothing more that can be done here,” he said. “I sincerely hope that the administration is right” about the increased safety of a kegless Game...
Almost no educated person these days doubts that Jesus lived. Some accept it on faith, others on the testimony of a brace of ancient chroniclers, both Christian and Roman. Yet there is something uniquely compelling about an attestation in stone. As Lemaire explained to TIME, "The written word is a bit airy. Listen, you can talk about Egyptian civilization, but the day you visit the pyramids, it speaks to you in a different way." Or as Hershel Shanks, editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review, says of the ossuary, "It is something tactile and visible reaching back to the single most...
...natural for individuals to favor fewer restrictions over more; we defend our own freedom of action and accept rules most readily when we bear the responsibility for others’ abuse of rules. But some of the scenarios about consequences of the keg ban seem improbable. There is no reason to think that students faced with cans and hard liquor will favor the hard stuff while the same students faced with kegs and hard liquor would go for the beer. Of course, anyone bent on getting drunk, even if only to prove a point, will be able...
...infuriated when people refuse to acknowledge that their compliance in this war means “the total ruination of millions of Afghan lives,” as one character in the book puts it. According to Rees, both America and al Qaeda are perpetrators of chaos, and to accept anything less would be hypocritical...
Mirroring the language of Malcolm X, West said if America does not accept the existence of society’s past sins and attempt, once and for all, to atone for them then “let’s see if the chickens won’t come home to roost...