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...touching on themes of environmental degradation and the conflict between tradition and modernity. Based on Jiang's experiences as a student volunteer living with nomadic Mongol herders in the 1960s and '70s, the 500-page tome is packed with descriptions of life on the steppes, ranging from the predatory behavior of wolves, to an explication of the sex lives of marmots. "It is an extremely Chinese book," says Lusby, "but also extremely universal as well...
...Crusader Crashes All the psychoanalyzing about what drove former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer to risk his career by conducting illegal extramarital entanglements seems pointless [March 24]. I doubt such urges in elected officials are different from those of ordinary people who engage in such risky behavior. My heart goes out to Spitzer's family, who have to endure publicly what others suffer privately. Nadia El-Badry, Dobbs Ferry, New York...
...undoubtedly true. It is also largely irrelevant. Which is why Clinton is coming under pressure to explain her decision to continue through the summer, despite the nearly insurmountable lead Obama holds among elected delegates. "In order for your staying in to be regarded as anything more than the behavior of a sore loser," says a prominent unaligned Democrat, "you have to make the argument for how you'd be a winner. No one can articulate that argument...
...made tremendous progress, there's no question about it, and people who say it's worse now can say that because they weren't here then. But he would be terribly disappointed with the behavior of the children of the black nation and all this anger that they feel...
Viewing Jesus as a member of the house of Israel is prevalent today in academia, though that has not yet made it to the pulpits and pews [March 24]. Grasping the full Israelite identity of Jesus of Nazareth and his family is essential to understanding his historical roots, behavior and teaching. It will go a long way toward demolishing the delusion of Jesus as a blue-eyed Aryan, defanging Christian anti-Semitism and affirming that Judaism and Christianity have a common ancestry. Among his own people, Jesus was known as an Israelite and his followers were known as Galileans...