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...always knew what he was doing, and I didn’t,” Mangan said. “But no matter how long it took to explain, he always made sure that I understood things...
Cottier insists that this "is not an 'anti-encyclical.'" The papal letter is mostly about Christian hope, and in it, Benedict refers to the lives and ideas of various saints and martyrs to explain that hope: Most of all, Benedict leans on the teachings of St. Augustine, the Pope's personal intellectual and spiritual guide, to illuminate "all the contradictions and hopes" of human existence. "In some way we want life itself, true life, untouched even by death; yet at the same time we do not know the thing towards which we feel driven," the Pope writes. "This unknown 'thing...
...They’re abandoning the richest theory to explain human nature and behavior in depth," she added...
...book, “Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America’s Health Care System,” sought to “take a very complicated body of knowledge that I care about and explain it to people who are very bright but not experts in the field,” said Cutler, a former adviser to the Clinton administration...
...they don't want to hear: he has championed merit pay in front of teachers and fuel-efficiency standards before automakers. But Obama also sees political necessity to pander, proposing, for instance, that senior citizens who earn less than $50,000 be exempt from income taxes. That stance could explain how his support among older voters, who make up a disproportionate share of the Iowa electorate, has risen 8 points since July in a Washington Post/ABC poll...