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...really just thankful for the opportunities that they've afforded me. Getting something like that is really humbling and it allows you to continue to work on quality projects and I'm really thankful for that. People probably think that there's probably an amount of, I don't know, drama or something that may come with them, but that's good. That's what I would hope people would think that I would do something that would be smart, because [The Reaping] is definitely a smart supernatural thriller...
...provide security in Baghdad and, he said, the Iraqi forces seem to be keeping up. Violence in the capital, he said, has "fallen nearly a quarter" since Operation Law and Order began six weeks ago. Iraqis are starting to trust their own security forces, he said, citing a steady amount of useful tips coming in during recent weeks. Also, there are indications, he said, that the tribes and some insurgents are turning on al-Qaeda in Anbar province. He added that some insurgent groups are negotiating with the Iraqi government to come into the political process. He successfully lobbied Prime...
...they’re really going to advertise these [Stein Clubs] heavily.” But the task, Drake said, isn’t a simple one. “This is no small feat to do 12 events in three weeks, so people should be psyched about the amount of fun we are bringing to each House,” he said. “We hope the newly housed freshmen choose to come out and enjoy these events as well.” Goldenberg, who is also a Crimson editor, said that the CEB will use the Stein...
Because they are private, we don't really know how much private-equity firms make, but the amount is reliably assumed to be humongous. And so what? Right? If he can turn, say, a $5 billion company into a $10 billion company a couple of years later, what's wrong with a few hundred million in the tip jar for Uncle Steve...
First Amendment sentinels like Wendy Kaminer, a lawyer and the author of Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and the Perils of Piety, fear that given America's overwhelmingly Christian cast, even neutral Bible instruction would amount to preferencing. "If you teach the Bible outside of close conjunction with other religions," she says, "then it becomes a kind of promotion of the majority faith. It becomes too hard for most folks to draw the line between teaching and preaching." Yet the American Jewish Congress's Stern, who has participated in Supreme Court establishment-clause-violation cases, sees Bible...