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THERE'S A WITTILY INCENDIARY scene in Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing in which a group of Hispanics and a lone black man spar with each other by turning up their radios to louder, increasingly confrontational volumes. The scene challenges the old cliche that music is the...
If that should prove to be true, the actual encounter with alien life might mark a higher stage in earthly progress, a liberation. Then theology, history, astronomy--all the strands of human thought and striving--would converge in a fusing shock of understanding that would also be a planetary self...
Why be religious at Harvard? This is not a facetious question because it's not at all clear how the many religious commitments we each bring to our work here fit into the pedagogies of this university. It's not clear how keeping the faith is even feasible for members...
It is a measure of this impatience that Steve Forbes, as unlikely a jockey as we are ever likely to encounter this side of Churchill Downs, is trying to ride that discontent to the head of the G.O.P. presidential race. Whether he ever intended, or expected, to get as far...
Dr. Gupta confirms he saw Christy that day but says he does not recall this aspect of their encounter. He did not in fact have the authority to make such referrals, he says; these can only be made by a patient's primary-care physician. Asked why, then, he felt...