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...whether the pursuit of truth is possible at all. If we are not understood as believing in everything equally, we are depicted as believing in only one thing absolutely. There is no longer room for the theoretical middle ground, where one spends one's life discussion. We can't avoid thinking. The thoughtless are always going to be the prisoners of other people's thoughts. American intellectual life has given us an easy way to believe anything we want...
...employee of Traffic and Parking reported that at 3:33 p.m. a blue van came toward her as if to hit her. The employee had to jump out of the way to avoid contact with the van. She said this occurred minutes after she ticketed the van for parking in front of a fire hydrant near 7th St. and Cambridge St. March...
...flimsier pretext for maintaining an army, claiming that it is fighting to "liberate" the Shebaa Farms, a sliver of territory occupied by Israel that Hizballah claims is part of Lebanon but which the UN regards as part of Syria. Still, Hizballah has been careful in recent years to avoid provoking Israeli retaliations so ruinous to Lebanon that they might provoke a Lebanese backlash against the militant group. They have also long been concerned to avoid being seen as a proxy of Iran or anyone else, and from a distance, Tuesday's crowds were indistinguishable from an anti-Syria rally because...
...Rehman the human-rights activist: "The freed men will now be thirsting for revenge against Mai and her family." Several human-rights activists are demanding that the Pakistani government provide Mai and her family with police protection; without it, they say, she may have to flee the village to avoid harm. Unbowed, Mai intends to keep teaching at the schoolhouse she built. The larger lessons of her traumatic experience, however, seem to have gone unlearned...
...field in June because of the very conditions you describe. The pressure of overindulgent parents who make educators miserable is more stress than I want to deal with. One point that you should have emphasized: the weakness of school administrators who turn their backs on teachers in order to avoid hassles with parents...