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...roughly Kepesh's age and, of course, eagerly evading the issues his story forces up. Death in the movies usually presents itself as the end of a bullet's path. Or, alternatively, in an inspiring deathbed scene, where the victim appears to be suffering no more than a bad case of la grippe. It's important to see the threat of death as predictably unpredictable, another fine mess we heedlessly fall into. And that Elegy does very powerfully...
...former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, and current Attorney General Michael Mukasey. They all appear to be cut from the same cloth. They may seem evasive. They may feign poor memories, inspired by the tactic’s success in the case of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They may even invoke executive privilege. Yet beneath the veneer of forgetfulness and caution, they seek to entrench the same fundamental belief in the American psyche...
...Much of the government's case hinges on connecting this sample, which Ivins supervised, to the anthrax used in the attacks. The government has repeatedly asserted that new technology helped the feds identify four genetic mutations in both samples and link the spores in the envelopes to the spores under Ivins' control. But scientists who study anthrax remain mystified by what this new science actually is. "The nature of biological weapons is such that it is very difficult to figure out where something came from," says Randall Larsen, author of a 2007 book on homeland security, Our Own Worst Enemy...
...until 2002 that Warren became a mainstream megastar, following the publication of The Purpose Driven Life. Beyond its striking opening assertion - "It's not about you" (it's about God and you) - the book, like its predecessor, was a crystal-clear blueprint, in this case for extending Sunday spirituality to the rest of one's life. It employed the tropes of the self-help genre (A 40-day program! Exercises!) to chart a user's guide to living midstream Evangelical doctrine. (On God's wanting believers to be a "living sacrifice": "The problem with a living sacrifice is that...
...draw on resources and attract investment. I can't have anything better than this." He admits that he is not a practicing Christian: "I cannot say I am devout, but I have a good sense of what faith is about and the usefulness of it." And in this case, he says, "what Saddleback is doing serves the church and serves...