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But the desire to apply them to the wider world may be growing. Diamond belongs to a group called Rabbis for Obama, and says that in light of the financial crisis, its members have begun to discuss how the old wisdom could mediate the new mess. The question these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Financial Crisis: What Would the Talmud Do? | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

Young children have no trouble discussing issues of race while young teens, influenced by social taboos, avoid the topic in social settings, according to a joint study from professors at Harvard Business School and Tufts published last month. The paper, entitled “Learning (not) to talk about race...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study: Younger Children Better At Talking Race | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

Are Pentecostals the same as Charismatics? The Charismatic movement began around the 1960s when some Christians within mainline Protestant and Roman Catholic churches adopted certain Pentecostal beliefs, including the acceptance of gifts - or "charisms" - from the Holy Spirit, like speaking in tongues. While Pentecostals can be broadly described as Charismatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Sarah Palin Have a Pentecostal Problem? | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

The desire for more government activism is true across the board. All of a sudden, government-provided infrastructure programs - and that's what most of McCain's despised "earmarks" are - don't sound like such a waste of money, especially if they are married to alternative energy sources and conservation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obama Surge: Will It Last? | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

That was, no doubt, the politic answer. But not the correct one. Obama was underestimating the public's capacity to hear the truth - which is odd, since the national desire for substance, the unwillingness to be diverted by "lipstick on a pig" trivialities, has been so striking in this campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obama Surge: Will It Last? | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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