Word: uncertainity
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Honnet says she feels that at Harvard it is especially hard for students to admit uncertainty. "Harvard students are human. They don't want to appear uncertain or naive," she says...
...religious person. Neither am I anti-religious. I am uncertain and concerned about a personal resolution that could change me. But organized, deceptive religion is alienating, even when it's a satellite-dish away. Face to face manipulation only builds walls of bias no Word can reach through...
...that the lifting of sanctions demonstrated a new Vatican attitude of openness and "confidence in the (Brazilian) bishops," two-thirds of whom side with some form of liberation theology. Nonetheless, Rome's action has not eliminated the rift between Boff and conservatives in the hierarchy. Moreover, it is still uncertain whether Rome will require Boff to retract some of the arguments in his troublesome book Church: Charism and Power (Crossroad), which described the relation between the hierarchy and laity in terms of class struggle...
...Harpoon missile sank at least two Libyan patrol boats and fired on three other naval "targets" with uncertain results. Designed initially as a surface-to-surface weapon, it scored one of its kills from an A-6 Intruder jet equipped to carry it. The 15-ft. missiles skim the waterline at 600 m.p.h. and smack into the target with a 500-lb. warhead. Powered by a small jet engine, the Harpoon has a range of some 50 miles...
...program. More than 27 million households, or about one-third of the U.S. total, have started at least one IRA. George Solomon and Anne Wyndham, a pair of Santa Monica, Calif., actors with a two- year-old son, each plan to start an IRA because of their uncertain future income in show business. Says Silverio Califano, 42, an Eastern Airlines aircraft inspector in Miami, who contributes to his account every year: "As far as I'm concerned, I think IRAs are the greatest thing...