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...Today's kids want the coolest, fastest ride-on toys," says Carlton Calvin, president of Razor USA, which sells the Razor Pocket Rocket bike ($230). "The play pattern of racing and the freedom of transportation never go out of style...
Anselm's formulation, often called substitutionary atonement, has been restated in countless ways over the centuries. The church eventually extended its concept of the sin for which Jesus died beyond Adam's disobedience to everybody's transgressions. The 16th century reformer John Calvin replaced Anselm's feudal king with a severe judge furious at a deservedly cursed creation. Hala Saad, a contemporary churchgoer in Texas, recites a milder modern version: "All I had to do was sign up for God's debt-cancellation plan--for Jesus to take my place...
From the 18th century on, however, various thinkers developed a bill of complaints about substitution, although few wanted to abandon it totally. To some Americans, Calvin's angry, all-powerful God was too reminiscent of the arbitrary tyrant by whose overthrow the country had defined itself. In an age when Thomas Jefferson was literally cutting out all references to miracles from his copy of the Bible, substitution's supernatural structure perturbed some Enlightenment rationalists. Its scant room for human volition contradicted a growing 18th and 19th century optimism that the species could perfect itself through its own efforts...
Novak told audience members that his two favorite presidents of the 20th century were Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge—both of whom took a hands-off approach to the Oval Office...
This season, Lord & Taylor added five new collections to its stable of mid-priced lines, including new arrivals Calvin Klein and Realities. In the fall Lord & Taylor will showcase the new Michael line from Michael Kors. The Michael line features items from $30 to $1,600; prices in his designer collection range from $200 to $20,000. Designer Kors says customers who admire his clothes haven't always been able to afford them but now "the Michael brand opens up my looks to a whole new audience...