“Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a gem of a book that addresses THE question central to contemporary basketball: how does such an unseemly culture spring from such an essentially beautiful game? You'll come away rooting harder than ever for the kids and harder than ever against the basketball profiteers.” DoeBookKidsBeautifulCultureGamesSocialResultsPositionBasketballSpringHarderCriticsContemporaryJournalistAddressesSwingsGiftedStorytellerGemsVersatileBallers Author:L. Jon Wertheim
“17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods in psychology. It shows no disrespect for the brilliance of Descartes or Kant to acknowledge that the psychology which they worked with was primitive by comparison with what is available today in the cognitive sciences, any more than it shows disrespect for the brilliance of Aristotle to acknowledge that the physics he worked with does not compare with that of Newton or Einstein.” MindWellsDoeShowsTodayPsychologyCenturyPositionMethodPhilosopherAvailablePhysicsCompareAcknowledgeComparisonPrimitiveBrillianceNewtonDisrespectCognitiveAdventCognitive Science17th Century Author:Hilary Kornblith
“It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.” HumansDoeDifferentChurchViewsMoralPositionTraditionCatholicHuman LifeCatholic ChurchMandatesEmbryosPersonhoodDevelopmentalJewish Tradition Author:Michael Sandel
“The banks, because of mismanagement, because of huge risk taking, are now in very vulnerable positions. We can expect that we're gonna have to do more to shore up the financial system. We also are gonna have to make sure that we set up financial regulations so that not only does this never happen again, but you start having some sort of - trust in how the credit markets work again.” DoeHappensRiskPositionHugeFinancialCreditVulnerableShoreRegulationRisk-takingFinancial SystemMismanagementFinancial Regulation Author:Barack Obama
“The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.” WayDoeLyingAbilityOur LivesRelationshipPositionPositiveYogaLive LifePerformingLife ChangingOur RelationshipChanging Your LifePositivelyPostureAsanaPositive ChangeYoga InspirationYoga PracticeInspirational YogaYoga And LifeYoga PeaceGood Posture Author:T. K. V. Desikachar
“A judicial standard means that a judicious decision can be entirely correct, even when the result does not line up with our preferred political positions or cater to certain political interests.” MeanDoePoliticalCertainInterestLinesDecisionResultsPositionStandardsJudicial Author:Orrin Hatch
“Has anyone asked Donald Trump recently like how exactly does his current position differ from [Marco] Rubio`s or even Jeb Bush`s?” DoePositionTrumpCurrentsMarcos Author:Michelle Goldberg
“We played all that rhetoric, all of the thing - the provocative inflammatory things [Donald Trump] said over the last year, does that all add up to buying him enough wiggle room with his base that he can get out and change his position like that?” YearsDoeSaidEnoughLastsRoomsPositionTrumpAddBuyingLast YearRhetoricProvocative Author:Steve Kornacki