"What is Faith, Love, Vertue unassaid": Some Literary Answers to Our Ever-Present Evils

Faith, hope and love

Than it started – first surgery, then chemotherapy, then radiation, and all over again for several times. Although I was only 11, my mum and my dad explained to me what was going to happen, why my mum needed to remove her breast, why she was going to loose her hair, and why she might be sad from time to time. At first it was OK to deal with it because I was a kid and kids see everything with a ...

Psychosis in Children: What is our present state of knowledge

Schizophrenic disorders in childhood comprise between 0.1 and 1% of all schizophrenic disorders before he age of 10, and 4 % before he age of 15 (Remschmidt, H., 2000). The term childhood schizophrenia was previously used to refer to all forms of childhood psychoses. This practice was an impediment to the advancement of knowledge, because marked differences exist between the types of psychosis ...

This is dedicated to our former chairman Dr. Mahmoud Rohani

What ever happened to accountability?

When leaders don't fire underperforming executives, they send a bad message to the whole organization. A case in point is the U.S. Army. "To study the change in the army across the two decades between World War II and Vietnam," Ricks writes, "is to learn how a culture of high standards and accountability can deteriorate." In this essay, adapted from his new book, The Generals: American Military...

WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION? Four Possible Answers

Simon Reich holds appointments as a Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. In fall 1997 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute. His publications include The Fruits of Fascism: Postwar Prosperity in Historical Perspective and The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Eur...