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...sermon to describe his hopes for the settlement. That vision--of a community of God's chosen people that would inspire the world--forms the core of Vowell's argument: that the Puritans' beliefs begot an American exceptionalism that, at its best, undergirded a nation's faith in liberty and equality and at its worst helped justify misadventures from South Vietnam to Abu Ghraib...
...advice for aspiring writers?MR: If the right story doesn’t come to you now, it’s okay. You have many years ahead of you. Somewhere down the road there will be a story you were meant to tell. You just have to have faith. —Interview conducted, condensed, and edited by Naomi C. Funabashi...
...long road to mastering the simple, and one I haven’t reached the end of—but I’ve come to accept and even embrace that. So long as I never have to make a right hand turn along the way, I have faith that I’ll make it there okay...
...parents might agree. Families across India are losing faith in the nation's public school system. In 1993, just over 10% of primary-school age village children were enrolled in private schools. By 2006, the figure had nearly doubled. A fifth of students between the ages of 6 and 7 cannot recognize letters and read words, according to an annual survey by Pratham, a Mumbai-based NGO that tracks children's literacy across India in order to assess the efficiency of rural and government school education. Though Pratham's 2007 figures show an improvement, the figures are still grim...
...This lack of faith in government initiatives runs wide and deep, which partially explains the huge response Teach India has evoked from young professionals like Iyer. Run by the Times of India, one of India's leading English-language dailies, in collaboration with UN Volunteers, the program has already received over 100,000 applications from would-be volunteers and is struggling to accommodate them all. "Such a visionary and large-scale program has only been possible because we've been able to get the media, civil society and corporate sector together," says Adeline Aubry, a former UNV program officer under...