Word: spirits
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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There are people whose spirit is so gracious and capacious that it is a privilege to be in their company. Such a one is Mohammad, a blind Iranian boy played--no, inhabited--by Mohsen Ramezani in Majid Majidi's enthralling pastorale The Color of Paradise...
...Pentagon funding. Using an Air Force satellite-spotting telescope in New Mexico and a camera equipped with an advanced M.I.T.-designed charge-coupled device, the totally automated, computerized operation quickly began discovering more asteroids and comets, large and small, than all the other groups combined. Getting further into the spirit of the game, the Air Force has deployed a second asteroid-hunting scope, is lending another to astronomers and musing, unofficially, about launching a fleet of microsatellites for even better asteroid detection...
...discovery of a final theory could have a cultural influence as well, one comparable to what was felt at the birth of modern science. It has been said that the spread of the scientific spirit in the 17th and 18th centuries was one of the things that stopped the burning of witches. Learning how the universe is governed by the impersonal principles of a final theory may not end mankind's persistent superstitions, but at least it will leave them a little less room...
...enforcement for reasons of deterrence and justice. But these decisions threaten the protections inherent in the Constitution and leaves all citizens vulnerable to the abuses of an aberrant--but brutal--minority of law enforcement officials. The Constitution only protects us from these abuses if the courts respect its spirit...
...facets of Harvard life. Backed by such disparate organizations as PBHA, the IOP and the Black Students' Association, the service day has the potential to truly unify the student body--mobilizing a diverse group of students around a common cause and, in doing so, achieving the camaraderie mishaps like Spirit Week failed to produce...