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...continual and intensive moral introspection, whether in suffering or pleasure, in poverty or prosperity. It is legitimate and appropriate for clergy to ask ourselves and our congregants to search our ways and reconsider our deeds in the face of tragedy, to ask each of us to search for the extent of our own culpability for the creation of a world society in which evil flourishes...
...Moment of Truth,” by Ross G. Douthat ’02 (Op-Ed, Sept. 19). Mr. Douthat’s fervent patrioism and disdain for those who appear to be blase and indifferent to the tragedy is very understandable at this time and, to an extent, admirable. However, I disagree with his claim that anyone who fails to feel a “burning desire to visit a terrible justice on those responsible” is an unjust person...
...many ways it has been mentor and tutor, too, and even, according to opposition groups, an active participant in its rise to power. In geopolitical terms, Pakistan needs to dominate Afghanistan to offset the discomfort of being wedged between hostile neighbors India and (to a lesser, but not insignificant extent) Iran - and the Taliban were to have been their vehicle. But the Bin Laden terror campaign has put Pakistan in a tight spot, where its all-important relations with the West are now dependent on standing against its Afghan progeny, a decision that raises considerable domestic difficulty for Pakistan...
...Maybe these guys were just ambivalent about America, like so much of the world, only to a psychotic extent. They liked our lap dances and convertibles and were repulsed by us at the same time. There's no need, of course, to understand the terrorists; it's only necessary to defeat them. Still, you kind of wonder...
Both of these dangers, however, can be offset to a certain extent. Annuities can include survivor benefits, for example, and some annuities pay income pegged to inflation-indexed Treasury securities. In any case, experts advise retirees to put no more than one-third of their retirement money into annuities. The rest can be divided among growth vehicles, such as stocks and bonds, and liquid assets like money-market funds that can be drawn upon in emergencies...