...from a man with an expensive education to his name. Give the words their context, and the England captain now sounds as wise as Socrates. Strauss , upper lip freshly starched, was underlining his intention to stay out of anything...

In this article: Mickey Arthur, Adil Rashid, England, Andrew Strauss, Wayne Parnell, South Africa, Alviro Petersen, and Jacques Kallis

...that it was not the government's role to endorse "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer," as Washington had described it. Thomas Jefferson , who once called for a "separation of church and state," said it was against his principles. He linked...

In this article: Thanksgiving, God, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Michael Novak, Sarah Josepha Hale, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, John Quincy Adams, and George W. Bush

...been something of a lifeline to me, as without him I'd be pretty starved of intellectual dialogue. Sometimes I feel I'm Socrates to his Plato! I've often felt that you and I share many commonalities. We've both attracted a lot of negative...

In this article: Thanksgiving, Authenticity, E mail, God, Plato, and Socrates

... Heaven and no Hell. Frankly, it all sounds like the lyrics to John Lennon's song, " Imagine. " Cicero was the best known of the skeptics. He was born about 105 B.C. and died about 43 B.C. He was politically astute and an eminent...

In this article: Epicurus, Cicero, Philosophy, Lucretius, Plutarch, Jesus Christ, Pain and suffering, God, and Imagine

HONG KONG (AP) - Ben Kingsley, famous for his Oscar -winning portrayal of Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi , is reaching deeper into the country's history with a new role as the Mogul emperor who ordered the construction of the Taj...

In this article: Taj Mahal, Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan, Mohandas Gandhi, India, Oscar, and The Pink Panther 2

...hidden gems and well-known spots not to be missed. Download the map or add your own location. TechFlash > 2009 > November > Q&A: How Plato and Nietzsche would play ' World of Warcraft ' BOOKS Q&A: How Plato and Nietzsche would play...

In this article: World of Warcraft, Philosophy, Plato, University of Victoria, EverQuest, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Microsoft

...was a public activity; the literate elite, being a rare commodity, would read the Bible aloud to the illiterate masses as a public service. Socrates , many intellectuals' role model, was in all likelihood illiterate. Today we are readers.

In this article: Socrates, Confessions, Augustine of Hippo, Ambrose, Duke University, Owen Flanagan, and North Carolina

...was issued in Chuttagunta village of Ramachandrapuram mandal in Chittoor district. It carried the picture of Gandhi with the name of M K Gandhi Thatha (Thatha in Telugu means grandfather), age 65, father's name Godsay, address 15-46541,...

In this article: Mahatma Gandhi, Revenue, Sania Mirza, and Ramachandrapuram

...second season, the Trailblazers won the first playoff game in program history and advanced to a quarterfinals matchup with Aquinas. That day, Aquinas won handily, 21-0, on its way to another semifinals appearance. </p><p>“At that point,...

In this article: Thomas Aquinas, Trailblazers, and Kansas football

...the ideologically driven collectivists, they're her heroes. That's what they look like in real life. Ayn Rand ain't the answer. Ayn Rand's the problem caricatured. The woman was off her trolley, but she certainly wrote some gripping...

In this article: Ayn Rand, Socialism, John Galt, Alan Greenspan, Capitalism, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged

...had no fear of pickpockets. The stories that circulated about him suggest an unusual, if acidic, sense of humor. When Plato repeated Socrates ' celebrated definition of man as a "featherless biped," Diogenes plucked a chicken and, presenting it...

In this article: Rome, Plato, Naples, Oliver Twist, Alexander the Great, All rights reserved, George Cruikshank, Videocon, and A. S. Roma

...Youth versus experience. Miami voters chose youth, electing a fresh-faced 32-year-old attorney, Francis Suarez , to the commission seat. Suarez bested 65-year-old candidate Manolo Reyes -- a former city economist/budget analyst who had...

In this article: Francis Suarez, Miami, Florida, Xavier Suarez, and Tomas Regalado

...as well. All this talk of reform is exciting, except for one thing. Proft has a problem. It's the size of Cicero. That doesn't necessarily disqualify him. But when a candidate is linked to Cicero , that candidate finds himself on the...

In this article: Cicero, Illinois, Sausage, Tribune Tower, and Chicago

The story of the 2009 St. Thomas Aquinas boys soccer team will surely be retold over the years for future classes of players, coach <strong>Craig Ewing </strong>says. </p><p>And what a story it is. </p><p>In addition to finishing 21-0 for...

In this article: Thomas Aquinas, Kansas, Umbro, and USA Today

...top pick. However, city voters have a responsibility to choose, and in this race the Herald believes Francis Suarez offers voters the better choice. His ideas for better financial management in the city offer a substantial edge over...

In this article: Francis Suarez, Tomas Regalado, Miami, Florida, Xavier Suarez, and Tax

...highly differentiated products to recoup their costs from users worldwide. The result has been an emancipation of minority tastes. Karl Marx , who opened Das Kapital with the observation that "the wealth of those societies in which the...

In this article: John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Capitalism, Milton Friedman, History, Mode of production, Australian Taxation Office, Das Kapital, and Clarence Saunders

In July while at work, her car was spray painted on town property with a four-letter word on it. Then a month later, Cicero police arrested her at the shelter charging the 87-pound Starzak with battery -- accusing her of throwing a pop can...

In this article: Cicero, Allegation, Betty Loren Maltese, and Chicago

...died in the Black Death. Sir Thomas More applied his own blindfold on the scaffold. John Locke died after finding a lump on his back. David Hume had bowel trouble. Kant died slowly, Nietzsche of syphilis. Bertrand Russell had bronchitis. And...

In this article: Peter Cook, Philosophers, Syphilis, William of Ockham, Thomas Aquinas, Simon Critchley, David Hume, Roland Barthes, John Locke, and Dudley Moore