Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer | TIME.com Gregory Currie, a professor of philosophy at the University of Nottingham, recently argued in the New York Times that we ought not to claim that literature improves us as people, because there is no “compelling evidence that suggests that people are moral
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An Inch At A Time: Reflections on the Journey Sister Joan Chittister famously said, "We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again." Reflecting on that journey -- a blog at a time -- is the focus of this site.
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Michael Brown shooting: Amnesty International sends team within US for first time as National Guard As anger erupted again on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, a human rights team from Amnesty International worked on the ground in the US for the first time ever. Confrontation flared up after an autopsy found that Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager who
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Awramba Times Prof.Tekalign Mamo has been named Person of the Year by Awramba Times readers Sep. 8 | Editor’s Note You, our esteemed readers, were cordially invited to cast your vote for an Ethiopian you think had an enormous role in Ethiopia this... Read more » Egypt
