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...women when she appeared in Morocco in 1930 and sang Give Me the Man. These days, it's Giorgio Armani's job to keep the tuxedo?now a black-tie staple for both men and women, thanks to the Italian tastemaker?au courant. Guys like Cuba Gooding Jr., Ben Affleck and Sean Penn are obvious fans. But it took the more outlaw style of Russell Crowe to update this classic menswear look with a ribbon tie and longer tails in 2001. Jodie Foster wore a crystal beaded version to the Oscars in 1991, and Woody Harrelson ordered a hemp...
...increasingly out of synch with what Americans are experiencing in their daily lives. For most people, wages are down because of inflation. Their "compensation" may be up because their employer pays more for their health care, but they can't buy milk with an insurance card. Even Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has called it "puzzling" that the boom hasn't shown up in people's paychecks, saying later that the evidence "is not very overwhelming" that wages will rise soon. [This article contains charts. Please see a hard copy or a pdf.] The big picture looks good ... ... with...
...kind of Tony Robbins positivism. No one exemplifies this better than Osteen, who ran his father's television-production department until John died in 1999. "Joel has learned from his dad, but he has toned it back and tapped into basic, everyday folks' ways of talking," says Ben Phillips, a theology professor at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. That language is reflected in Your Best Life Now, an extraordinarily accessible exhortation to this-world empowerment through God. "To live your best life now," it opens, to see "your business taking off. See your marriage restored. See your family prospering...
Confronting such stories, certain more doctrinally traditional Christians go ballistic. Last March, Ben Witherington, an influential evangelical theologian at Asbury Seminary in Kentucky, thundered that "we need to renounce the false gospel of wealth and health--it is a disease of our American culture; it is not a solution or answer to life's problems." Respected blogger Michael Spencer--known as the Internet Monk--asked, "How many young people are going to be pointed to Osteen as a true shepherd of Jesus Christ? He's not. He's not one of us." Osteen is an irresistible target for experts from...
...Crimson, whose men ranked ninth overall in the 19-team contest, while the women placed fifth among the 18 competing teams. The young bloods of the men’s team dominated Harvard’s showing, accounting for all but one of the top-five Crimson finishes. Freshman Ben Gutierrez was the first to cross the line for Harvard, earning 16th place in the 5K run with a time of 26:55. Juniors Lauren Walker and Erica Geihe set the standard for the women, with Geihe literally riding Walker’s heels and clocking in only two seconds...