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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Last Tuesday, I marched across Washington D.C. in the pouring rain, hoisting a sign that read, “Poverty is not a family value.” Although at Harvard I find myself in the minority as a progressive Christian, that day I was surrounded by 500 church leaders, activists, and college students who had converged on America’s capital as participants of Pentecost 2006, a conference hosted by faith-based NGOs “Sojourners” and “Call to Renewal.” Unlike conservative Christians...
...coalition of groups such as the Christian Coalition and Moveon.org, along with Yahoo, Google and all the bloggers, are worried that telephone and cable companies, who built and own much of the infrastructure of networks that provide high-speed Internet access, will put them at a competitive disadvantage by changing the way they charge companies for using bandwidth. Google has complained, for example, that a cable company could charge it much higher fees if it wants to run as fast as other competing sites. Bloggers warn that a broadband company could even restrict or slow down access to sites that...
Theodore Roosevelt once lamented, "there is not any more puzzling problem in this country than the problem of color." More puzzling to us now are his conflicted views on race. On the one hand, he could write that "the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man." But as was common among whites at the time, his opinion of blacks as a group was rather dim. "As a race, and in the mass," he wrote in a letter in 1906, "they...
...think, 'Let's just all get on with life.'" She's getting on with hers - she has resigned from parliament and will leave the Netherlands shortly for a fellowship at Washington's American Enterprise Institute. But that's going to be harder for those who remain. Balkenende's Christian Democrats and the vvd are now trying to cobble together a temporary minority government, Balkenende's third in four years, and hold elections in November. The Prime Minister is hoping his austerity program of the last three years will be rewarded with an economic uptick in the coming months, which could...
...Whether they’re Christian or Muslim or whatever—they get in their profession and can’t back out,” Updike said of clergymen...