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...book, Casey's character, Patrick Kenzie, quotes Matthew 10: 16: "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Jesus is telling his disciples to go and talk about him and, by the way, to expect some push back. "I find that particular section moving," says Affleck. "You're in a world out there that's hostile. Bad things are going to happen to you. You're going to be scorned. How do you reconcile these two sides of yourself? What are you going to do to maintain...
...uproar over kid nation about abuse or fear that the children will succeed and put parents out of a job? We cannot hold our children's wings all their lives and then expect them to know how to fly when we let them go. Kids need parents, but they also need the freedom to learn and grow. Let them experience the sting of failure and the joy of success. And trust them! Danica Conway, LONGMONT, COLO., U.S. Poniewozik's article was a quick yet deeply gratifying read. In one page he managed to sum up the rationale and angst...
...leftist activists. Outside speakers—like President Ahmadinejad at Columbia, Mohammed Khatami at Harvard, and the plagiarizing former professor Ward Churchill at Hamilton College, although the last was ultimately cancelled—contribute nothing but the universities’ effective condemnation of American foreign policy. Universities demand and expect academic freedom, by which they mean freedom to make unrelated and extremist political statements...
...duty of academics—like many tradesman, and like us students, who thrive on the generosity of others—includes approaching their work in a dignified and responsible manner. While they may be legally free to say and do almost anything, they ought not expect their patrons to appreciate frivolity. Or, as in the case at Columbia, to gladly welcome an insult...
Most psephologists believe that Labour would have won an overall majority if Brown had called a November election. That's a belief shared by the Tories, who are convinced that a later election will benefit their cause. They expect the British economy to stutter, damaging Labour's reputation and, more especially, Brown's - he was Chancellor of the Exchequer for 10 years before becoming Prime Minister, after all. They also want months rather than weeks to woo electors with vote-winning policies such as their planned changes to the inheritance tax, which would raise the threshold to 1 million pounds...