In 2003, Dr. Robert Spitzer, a towering figure in psychiatric circles, published a study that purportedly validated the idea that sexuality can be changed.
Third, we get the "Right Wing New York Times," Wasik's successful attempt to win a Huffington Post contest the goal was to attract the most users with a Web site that, upon rollover, changed Times headlines to what right-wingers purportedly see when they read The New York Times.
A blog purportedly written by the teenager says his world view changed after he studied the US-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, which he characterized as brutal and imperialistic attempts to impose democracy — "a system of lies and deception".
While a lot has changed since then, the gnawing impulse to check Facebook or whatever your social media drug of choice while you're purportedly trying to escape has only grown stronger.
With the election in Iran just passed, and a purportedly moderate cleric winning among the candidates hand-picked by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, I'm remembering Mona's courage under unimaginable trials, and how little has changed in thirty years since the Iranian Revolution.
However, a purportedly miraculous event was to change him.
Action purportedly makes a change in the world.
It would take nearly four decades after the Eisenhower presidency for another non-office holding candidate to stir real passion among supposedly frustrated and malcontent voters who purportedly wanted radical change.
The Florida and Ohio policy changes purportedly narrowly target Democrats since conventional wisdom is the weekend prior to the election is when Democrats, particularly minorities, vote early as part of a church-led "pew to polls" mobilization effort.
Unfortunately, all that salaciousness has overwhelmed serious reflection on the role of self-proclaimed "change agents" in the retail environment people who purportedly see their role as disrupters of the status quo.
