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...professor Thomas Berg, who teaches courses in constitutional law and religious freedom at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., sees this seemingly unlikely liberal-conservative alliance against Bush's initiative as a reemergence of an old trend. "Historically, Protestant conservatives were very suspicious of government intervention in religious proceedings, because they worried the government would try to dictate doctrine. And liberal groups, who favored secularization, agreed with them, in terms of their purpose, anyway," Berg told TIME.com. "It was only about 30 years ago, particularly as once-trusted bastions of low-grade generalized Christian ethos, like public schools, became more secular...
...Unlike Professor Berg, however, the White House was apparently caught off guard by conservatives' hostility toward the plan, and is looking into workable alternatives to direct federal funding of religious groups' work. One especially popular possibility involves vouchers - which would be distributed to individuals in need who could then choose whether to seek help from a government- or church-run group. This course of action would help smooth ruffled feathers on both sides of the debate by removing federal standards from organizations' quest for funding, and by placing the onus on each individual to evaluate and choose the best program...
...success? No. An Ivy League education does not give you much of an advantage a few years after graduation, unless you are working-class (not middle-class) or go into academia or high journalism, as demonstrated in a recent study conducted by Alan Krueger and Stacy Berg Dale under the auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Research...
...Slimane's collections for Dior, the first of which was seen in January, will likely continue to receive raves from the fashion press. But they're unlikely to shock the media as a whole into paying attention. The controversy created by the presence of Berg* and Saint Laurent was of a sort that is lost on anyone outside fashion's inner circle. Sure, Arnault scored points there, but the larger question remains whether Dior Homme's stark ads, minimal styles and boyish models make sense in the house of Dior that Galliano has been remodeling. Is it logical...
...Scott Berg...