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...judged on adherence to the Gospels, he is in Hell for his failure. Jesus said nothing about homosexuality, yet Falwell delivered famous tirades in Jesus' name against gays. Jesus did say, "Love as I have loved." Falwell promoted his version of Christianity, raised lots of money and built an empire, yet he missed the point of Jesus' rhetorical question "What does it profit a man to have everything, and yet lose his soul?" (The Rev.) Charles Jones, Chicago...
...India, when it has failed to survive in so many other countries in the Middle East and Africa-not to mention in Pakistan, which was part of India until 1947? The exact answer may defy analysis, but Guha's new book provides important clues on how a democracy is built and sustained-making it mandatory reading for public-policy planners throughout the world...
Asia's largest fortress was built to last. Rising out of a rocky plateau, the ramparts of Chittorgarh encircle a 240-hectare hilltop. They have withstood centuries of war and outlived dynasties, the many layers of outer fortifications snaking around crumbling palaces, small shrines, a few holy-water pools, and a forlorn marble victory tower, erected to commemorate a 15th century battle. My tour guide, an affable man born in the shadow of Chittorgarh's ruins, smiles broadly, gestures between imposing battlements and delicate temple carvings and asks, "Isn't this Rajasthan at its best...
...power as literature - or, perhaps more important, as an allegory of Kapuscinski's own communist-era Poland. Indeed, as The Emperor was going to press, the Polish government approved an extravagant flood-control program for the Vistula River; the author phoned in a new passage about a costly dam built by Selassie. "Everything is a metaphor," Kapuscinski once said. "My ambition is to find the universal...
...people who don't have their own transportation out of New Orleans if an evacuation is ordered. Officials are still negotiating with Amtrak for trains to evacuate the disabled and those too sick to be crowded onto buses. And thousands of families are still living in FEMA trailers hardly built to withstand a strong wind, much less another Katrina...