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Mike doesn’t attend church regularly anymore or belong to his former Christian group anymore, but says he still feels like a Christian. “I feel like I’ve already been saved and I will continue to be saved,” he says. “I feel you are saved when you have faith...
Nearly everyone in Washington has all but concluded the whorls and ridges belong to bin Laden. President Bush named him the "prime suspect" on Saturday. When you look at the point of this attack, who better does it serve? The faceless enemy needs no claim of responsibility to get his message across; he has no agenda that can be met. What he wants is to make a statement: to carry out attacks to prove that he can. What better recruiting poster than that searing image of a plane shearing through the south tower: it tells the faithful, Look...
Additionally, many South Asians in our community belong to the Islamic faith, as Pakistan and Bangladesh, both part of South Asia, are predominately Muslim. We have great respect for all members of our community and offer our full support to all those feeling threatened. At no point should we ever try to escape retaliation by distancing ourselves from fellow South Asians. Although there are many religions in South Asia, we are one community and will proudly stand beside our Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Jewish and Parsi brothers and sisters in this time of concern...
...literary arts have always cherished non-commercial pretensions, as if they were a refuge of purity and a counterweight to Mammon. Writers were supposed to belong to a guardian priesthood, whose duty enjoined, at bottom, a strict truth-telling. They were not necessarily required to engage in muckraking or anti-Babbitt, anti-commercial screeds equating business and money-making with Philistinism. But at a deeper level, the writer's vocation, he and she have assumed, had to do with getting to the truth of things, even when making up stories. The goal of product-placement advertising, on the other hand...
...candidates before choosing Garcia. "The real decision makers in Mexico are a relatively small group," Green says. "It is truly a club, in the same way the U.S. was during the 1900s when Morgan and Rockefeller ruled American business. They're wealthy men who went to the same schools, belong to the same clubs and are involved with politics and government." Such partners usually don't receive fees, and their salaries are modest, but if they deliver the required government approvals, they qualify for a cut of the profits...