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Pius' story can be seen as the macro to Edith Stein's micro. Devout and ascetic in life, long a favorite of the church's conservative branch, the wartime Pontiff has been sharply criticized both by Jewish leaders and church liberals for his refusal to publicly condemn the Nazis, a "silence" that some suggest may have cost untold Jewish lives. Pius' defenders reply heatedly that his efforts to hide Jews in Italy and elsewhere saved thousands. More important, they insist that silence was the best policy--and here Pius' story intersects Stein's. According to Gumpel, Pius was about...
Almost every American is prepared to give a dissertation on Jerry Springer episodes--even the most straight-laced, devout CNN watcher has been tempted to buy the uncensored video--whether "Attack of the Angry Wives" or "She's Carrying Her Brother's Baby." One Harvard senior must have spent the year plastered to the tube in order to write Serving Society's Spectators: Daytime Talk-shows and the Creation of Synthetic Social Capital. Another student surely racked up an interesting rental record at the video store upon completion of When She Was Bad: A Study of Sex-Positive Pornographies...
...fond of camel racing and is tolerant toward human frailties. "He will forgive anything but lying," says an intimate. He has a reputation for eschewing the country's endemic corruption; almost alone in the royal household, he forbids his sons to use their connections to profit in business. A devout Muslim, he meets weekly with the religious hierarchy and is popular in the kingdom's Islamic heartland...
...Lopez is coping with the pressure isthrough religion. A devout Catholic, heimmediately sought out the ministry at St. Paul'sChurch...
...with Monica Lewinsky was a private matter and also made the case that it transcended the dry question of whether he broke the law. Connecticut Democrat Joe Lieberman--Clinton's friend of almost three decades, a politician whose own secure future would have allowed him to remain silent, a devout man with no apparent agenda beyond his sense of right and wrong--called the President's behavior immoral and damaging to the country. In words made all the more devastating by their careful measure, Lieberman said, "The transgressions the President has admitted to are too consequential for us to walk...