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...Your special report cited research describing Americans' religious beliefs. While it is bound to be difficult to construct a questionnaire that neatly pigeonholes people's religious faith, the viewpoints representing "How Americans See God"-which included an "Authoritarian God" and a "Benevolent God"-were simplistic and incomplete. Is God authoritarian or benevolent? According to the Bible, he is both. The way people view God may be an interesting sociological study, but those views do not define who God is. Hollie Harmon Montgomery, Alabama...
...votes to go to one candidate? The U.S. is busy spreading democracy overseas yet has one of the least democratic electoral systems in the developed world. Jeremy Greenbrook-Held Wellington, New Zealand Your special report cited research describing Americans' religious beliefs. While it is bound to be difficult to construct a questionnaire that neatly pigeonholes people's religious faith, the viewpoints representing "How Americans See God" - which included an "Authoritarian God" and a "Benevolent God" - were simplistic and incomplete. Is God authoritarian or benevolent? According to the Bible, he is both. The way people view God may be an interesting...
...Miami Workers Center. Local anger boiled over recently at a housing scandal that Perera's group helped the Miami Herald expose: Miami-Dade's government housing agency paid millions of dollars to politically connected developers for low-income projects that were never built or were used to construct private condominiums instead. "This is a greedy city," says Yvonne Stratford, 52, an unemployed seafood-warehouse worker who had hoped to live in one of the new low-income units...
...Putnam’s findings. But in the second-to-last paragraph, reporter Lloyd paraphrased Putnam as saying that immigration benefits “importing” and “exporting” countries. Lloyd quoted Putnam as saying that trends “have been socially constructed, and can be socially reconstructed.” And in the final paragraph, Lloyd quoted Putnam as saying, “We should construct...
...introducing comparative reading because it allows us to measure the broad reading comprehension construct in a way that parallels a common task that law students perform—comparing and contrasting texts,” Jim Vaseleck, the executive assistant to the president at LSAC, wrote in an e-mail...