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...useful to boast about one's belief in Jesus and the Christian God, and political suicide to mention any faith that is focused in a different direction. Can you imagine a candidate for President glowingly referring to an uplifting feeling at a full-moon ritual or celebration of Tu B'shvat? Sadly, what really should be the valuable part of any faith - namely, the way one's integrity guides one to live it - is not something that needs advertising. Deborah Greymoon, Cascade, Colo...
...atonement for it, this muscular saga has Dr. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) morphing into a more plausible 10-ft. green guy. The rooftop chases owe much to the Bourne movies, while the creature's romance-mismatch with stalwart Betty (Liv Tyler) suggests a pretty good remake of King Kong. B...
...boundaries with pop, avant-garde and blues, here assembles an album of standards echoing her breakthrough Blue Skies (1988). A few tracks are a little too standard, but more often a languid beat kicks in, and Wilson's subtle phrasing, filled with cunning pauses, casts its steamy spell. B...
...Obama's admission of the obvious was selectively applied. Even as he criticized the "game," his allies sent out e-mails announcing that the man leading McCain's vice presidential search, Arthur B. Culvahouse, was - you guessed it - a former lobbyist. To make matters even more complicated - and absurd - Culvahouse used to lobby for Fannie Mae, the rich and well-connected mortgage company where Johnson previously served as chairman and CEO. (Full disclosure: Time Warner, the parent company of TIME, is another of Culvahouse's former clients...
...front lines, helped bury the dead, and weathered Japanese onslaughts on their positions even after the island had been declared secure. According to Christopher Moore, the author of a book about African-Americans' myriad contributions during World War II, "thousands" more helped fashion the airstrips from which U.S. B-29 aircrafts could launch and return from air assaults on Tokyo, about 760 miles northwest. Hosting that air base, Moore says, was Iwo Jima's primary strategic importance...