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...election in India is one of those spectacles, like a pilgrimage or a marathon, in which size itself is meant to convey meaning. Watching all those people peacefully praying, running or voting - it restores your faith in humanity...
Michael Grunwald's analysis of the sorry state of the Republican Party is the best of many I have read. But he assigns insufficient blame to the figurehead of the party for eight years, Bush, whose faith-based leadership alienated many who believe in secular government. His obstinacy in the face of evolving public opinion in favor of stem-cell research, equality for same-sex couples and women's reproductive rights underscored his failure to feel the pulse of modern America. Most of all, his my-way-or-the-highway foreign policy made the U.S. a global pariah. Bill Gottdenker...
...What am I doing here?RR: I did not ask any of those questions.KS: Hm.RR: I think I’m going to go now.KS: I’d miss my freshman year roommates.RR: So you’ll miss the people.KS: Yeah, that and the strong religious faith of the students here.RR: Okay.KS: And the institutionalized public nudity. And the Bee. Definitely the Bee.RR: I see what you’re doing here. You’re saying things that aren’t true.KS: Well, what will you miss most?RR: I’d say the people.KS...
...though the team effort fell short against Princeton in the HYP tri-meet, the swimmers never lost faith in each other...
...Though Washington has stayed quiet about the current trial, France has carefully positioned the case to withstand charges that it is intruding in matters of faith. As in the five previous cases France brought against Scientologists, prosecutors are focusing on charges and evidence of the organization's manipulating members to wring money out of them - not on any of the spiritual beliefs or practices that may be involved. The first time that happened, in 1978, a Paris court found Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard guilty of vulgar fraud. In 1997, a Lyon court convicted five Scientology officials of similar charges...