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POPSWhat religion also does It is necessary to point out to the critics that religion is not only, or overwhelmingly, as series of assertions about the world
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POPSEducation This is from a report published in 1931. Going round in circles, or continual renewal?
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POPSBurgess showing off Even better is the magnificent first line of Earthly Powers: “It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.”
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POPSSurvivor bias Very good label. Read the start of the article for his account of a great con, as well.
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POPSAppeasement I know her only from her version of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Can't imagine why I haven't investigated further.
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POPSLesson in tolerance The DVD of the film 'Gomorra', which because of its expose of the methods of the Camorra earned its author, Roberto Saviano, a contract on his life, is available in Naples weeks before its publication. The counterfeit is, of course, produced and distributed by ... the Camorra. Such tolerance!
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POPSHead in the stars; feet in blood The cathedrals and the auto-da-fe, universalism and slavery, the marvels of Baroque art and the Inquisition, Scientific reason and the witch trials, progress and total war, democracy and bureaucracy, the dream of brotherhood and the gulags, Beethoven and Auschwitz, Beethoven in Auschwitz. That's Europe: its head in the stars; its feet in blood. Elie Barnavi