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...travesty that no students will be experiencing Chile this spring, but this disappointing truth should in no way discourage my peers from traveling to Chile this summer and next year. I will be more than happy to meet and discuss my fabulous time in Chile with anyone interested...
...used to be, there was truth and there was falsehood. Now there is spin and there are gaffes. Spin is often thought to be synonymous with falsehood or lying, but more accurately it is indifference to the truth. A politician engaged in spin is saying what he or she wishes were true, and sometimes, by coincidence, it is. Meanwhile, a gaffe, it has been said, is when a politician tells the truth--or more precisely, when he or she accidentally reveals something truthful about what is going on in his or her head. A gaffe is what happens when...
...father’s side. Huxley’s reply, now a cocktail party quotable for Darwinists the world over, was no less uncompromising: “I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.” So the increasingly contentious debate has gone until today, with theology and science unrelentingly deadlocked. In November of last year, the latest round of God vs. science played out not in a lecture hall, but on the pages of TIME, where practicing Christian and prominent geneticist Francis Collins faced off against...
...taking off on foot to the finish line. But special guests don’t make a show, and for these two comics, it all comes back to the characters they’ve created. “T-Bones is a character who is on a quest for truth,” said Koechner. “One thing I’m trying to bring out through T-Bones is the idea of purely living for every moment, seizing the moment...
...gestations to their eventual appearance in published form. As Richardson puts it, while it may seem that James’ later philosophical framework was formulated far after his early interest in psychology, many of his later themes—religious experience, the meaning and use of “truth,” and the benefits of pluralism—are clearly indicated in James’ writing even before the publication of his major work, almost as if it “couldn’t itself go forward until certain religious and philosophical problems had been faced...