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...Jesuit Guide. It helpfully unpacks core precepts like "finding God in all things." But at heart it is self-help book based on the "spiritual exercises" of Jesuit founder St. Ignatius Loyola and other Jesuit practices for a non-Jesuit, possibly non-Catholic, maybe even non-believing audience. This makes it unusual. Unlike Buddhists or New Agers, notes religion author and book critic Jana Riess, Christian writers may evangelize others, but save their how-tos for members of their own flock. Not Martin. His guide suggests "six paths" that might appeal to different kinds of readers, including "the path...
...think it surprised a lot of people that the answer turned out to be yes,” he said. “Maybe that’s the core of what inventors do. They ask, wouldn’t it be great if we could do something? And if the answer turns out to be yes, they try to figure out how to make it a reality...
...budgeting strategy, known as the “first-dollar principle,” requires that departments and centers spend their restricted funds according to thus far unspecified FAS “core principles.” Since area study centers—such as the Center for European Studies—are traditionally autonomous units that depend largely on restricted endowments and donations, center administrators were concerned about losing control of their spending priorities...
Smith said that “core principles” for spending—a term used in a budgeting letter sent out to department and center administrators clarifying the new policy—would be determined in conjunction with center administrators...
...while the Bush Administration had hoped this would create a democratic ripple effect throughout the region, the results of Iraq's elections have been less than edifying. The politicians who came to power after the country's first parliamentary elections four years ago have been unable to resolve such core issues as sharing oil revenue, balancing power between the regions and the central government, and national reconciliation...