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...Shawn Carter) seemed to know he had cheated the odds when he announced his retirement in 2003. Then 34, he had lived the ur-rap narrative-make tapes, launch a label, buy a De Beers mine-and bragged about it on a dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mic, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra-another vocalist who made callousness...
Thirty years ago, Jimmy Carter was Person of the Year. In the decades since, he has focused on big issues: waging peace, fighting disease and building hope. President Carter has inspired us and countless others across the political spectrum by tirelessly living his own advice: "The worst thing that...
BILL AND MELINDA GATES 2005: JIMMY CARTER...
...just one of the more skin-crawling scenes in The Little Dog Laughed, a play by Douglas Carter Beane that wouldn't be worth talking about if it hadn't received mostly rave reviews when it opened off-Broadway last winter, hyping it enough to effect a Broadway transfer this fall. New York theater critics are so starved for something besides musicals to talk about on Broadway that they tend to overrate trifles like this. But The Little Dog Laughed is worse than a trifle; it's an embarrassment...
...actually following in their [prophets’] footsteps.”In keeping with its ecumenical aspirations, the Abraham Path Initiative has been endorsed by a wide range of public figures—religious and otherwise. The Dalai Lama has given his approval, as has former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.“It would indeed be a dramatic demonstration of brotherhood if religious leaders and lay persons could join in re-tracing the route of their common ancestor, Abraham,” Carter has said, according to the project’s website.Some hope that the full retracing?...