VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Dominican Republic’s attorney general said it was “just and positive” for the Vatican to remove Jozef Wesolowski’s immunity and that the country would consider seeking the former archbishop’s extradition. The post Dominican Republic may seek ex-Vatican envoy’s extradition appeared first on Religion News Service . ...
The Globe's Madeleine White and Odessa Paloma Parker dissect the red carpet and share their favourite looks...
“Religion should confirm what we’re doing, not be an escape. Some of us are so heavenly bound that we’re no earthly good. When Michael Brown was on the ground, what did you do?” –The Rev. Al Sharpton, speaking at the funeral for Michael Brown, an unarmed teen fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, […] The post Quote of the Day: The Rev. Al Sharpton appeared first on Religion News...
Chef Matt DeMille shows you how to roast and gently smoke côte de boeuf on the barbie...
Just one catch: it’s a ghost town built for a defunct gold-mining operation that pinched out in the 1970s. And some of the properties may need a little TLC...
"I recently captured this image of a shadow person lurking behind my friend while sitting around my dining room table," says Dustin. "I was hosting a party and was trying to capture a picture of the bottle of absinthe that we were enjoying. ... Read Full Post ...
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Picture of Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Since I received my doctorate from the Ohio State University, I usually feel a tiny bit of unjustified pride when I hear that OSU is #1 in some area. However, I recently found out that OSU is #1 in that the school is the most unequal public university in America. The basis for this claim is that between 2010 and 2012...
Job List: Europe Name of institution: University of Cambridge Town: Cambridge Country: United Kingdom . . . Continue reading . . . News source: Jobs In Philosophy ...
[Revised entry by Carl Huffman on May 28, 2014. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Pythagoras, one of the most famous and controversial ancient Greek philosophers, lived from ca. 570 to ca. 490 BCE. He spent his early years on the island of Samos, off the coast of modern Turkey. At the age of forty, however, he emigrated to the city of Croton in southern Italy and most of his philosophical activity...
[Revised entry by Sarah Pessin on May 28, 2014. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] A visionary thinker and prolific author, Moses Maimonides (1135/8-1204) writes on topics ranging from physics to Jewish Law, theology to politics, psychology to Biblical exegesis, and from philosophy to medicine. Rich and complex in their own right, Maimonides' writings must, however, be understood within...
Maya Angelou, memoirist, poet, calypso dancer, actress, civil-rights activist, professor, is dead. She was 86… NY Times… LA Times… Wash Post… NPR… WSJ… USA Today… CNN… Telegraph… Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
2014.05.31 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Claude Romano, Event and Time, Stephen E. Lewis (tr.), Fordham University Press, 2014, 269pp., $32.00 (pbk), ISBN 9780823255344. Reviewed by Andrea Staiti, Boston College Claude Romano is one of the leading figures in contemporary French phenomenology. He has published extensively on the subject, and his work has recently drawn the...
2014.05.32 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Sean Gaston, The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida, Rowman & Littlefield, 2013, 241pp., $39.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781783480012. Reviewed by J. Colin McQuillan, St. Mary's University (TX) Sean Gaston has written a book that traces the concept of world from Kant to Derrida. Between these two termini, he discusses Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger....
Beethoven is legend, myth, among history’s greatest artists. But he was also irritable, erratic, and plagued by gastrointestinal issues… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Wine has always been more than a beverage. “I put my nose in the glass and feel time and space grinding to a halt”… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Adapted from a recent online discussion . Dear Carolyn: My husband is Mr. Decision, chop-chop, everything has to be decided quickly and with little fanfare. I move more slowly, and am constantly being picked at and nagged to hurry up and make a darn decision already. A lot of times, I feel pushed into making decisions and end up regretting the result. So how do we find a happy medium, because it seems...
In my last column , one of you kind readers commented on my reference to sex: "Love your articles. But must you always need to add something about sex into the columns? Every. Single. Time."...
You'lll be hard-pressed to fnd a New Zealander who doesn't know her name, and it's no wonder when you check out Karen Walker's body of work....
Blenheim-raised bridal and couture designer Johanna Johnson loved seeing one of her dresses feature in the leadup to the wedding of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in Florence, Italy....