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...argue, were self-serving, inefficient cartels holding Mexico back. It employed too many at inflated wages, they argue, and provided a terrible service characterized by daily blackouts and power surges. "The electricity workers are not victims. They have been looting Mexico for years," said pundit and onetime PRI loyalist Abraham Zabludovsky on his daily radio show. "This could be the great action that Calderón is remembered for." (See pictures inside Mexico's drug tunnels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Calderón Busting Unions or Bringing Change? | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

Linkmate John A. Abraham ’10 recalled that Shaker would ask people, “What about it makes you happy?” a phrase that was printed below Shaker’s picture on the cards that were handed out as people walked into the church...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Family, Friends Remember Senior Ariel Shaker | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...even as abolitionists used the Exodus to attack slavery, Southerners used it to defend the institution. The War Between the States became the War Between the Moseses. Slaveholders cited a bevy of biblical passages - Abraham acquires slaves; Moses invites slaves to the first Passover; Jesus does nothing to free slaves - to claim the Bible endorsed slavery. The book that joined Americans together was torn asunder by slavery. (See the top 10 Jesus films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Moses Shaped America | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...took America's most Bible-quoting President to reunite the country. Called a pharaoh by his opponents, Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves after a "vow before God"; he invoked the Exodus at Gettysburg. When he died, Lincoln, like Washington before him, was compared to Moses. "There is no historic figure more noble than that of the Jewish lawgiver," Henry Ward Beecher eulogized. "There is scarcely another event in history more touching than his death." Until now. "Again a great leader of the people has passed through toil, sorrow, battle and war, and come near to the promised land of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Moses Shaped America | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...also cited Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist who wrote about the “Jonah [Yonah] Complex...

Author: By Emily M. Boggs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lecturer Probes Jewish Story | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

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