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...Huckabee is hardly the first to mix God and country. Over the years, Presidents and candidates for the White House have spoken of a higher power, prayed and been prayed for, sought divine favor for America, and expressed gratitude for providential outcomes. But something profound has changed in recent decades...
TIME: So what do you think your odds are of winning the lawsuit against the federal government? SCHWARZENEGGER: History is in our favor. Out of four lawsuits, we have won four. They have lost all four. It could very well be, and I think this is the direction it's going to go, they're going to lose the fifth one. We want to overturn that. Imagine that the Supreme Court had to tell the [Environmental Protection Agency] that greenhouse gases are a pollutant. Think about that. We're arguing that! Is it a pollutant or not? That...
...came up with a steal and fed Housman for a fast-break basket. On the team’s next offensive possession, Housman drove and dished to junior forward Evan Harris for a lay-up and 52-49 lead.All the momentum seemed to be in Harvard’s favor when Lin swatted forward Eugene Spates’ shot out of bounds on the Huskies’ next trip up the floor. But Ojougboh took the inbounds pass and drove for a dunk, which would kick-start a 12-1 run for Northeastern that put the Huskies ahead...
...firm DPZ, and over the years he's become a leader in what's called New Urbanism. It's a philosophy of design that tackles not so much buildings themselves as the entire built environment. Duany and his peers in New Urbanism want to stem suburban sprawl in favor of medium-density towns and neighborhoods where houses, offices, shopping and leisure activities would all be within a walkable space. The automobile - which is responsible for a significant portion of most Americans' individual carbon footprint - would become an option, not a lifeline. "This goes beyond simply having cars that will pollute...
...study by South Africa's Institute for Race Relations found the numbers of people living on less than $1 a day rose from 1.89 million in 1996 to 4.2 million in 2005. The fact that poverty has grown along with the economy on Mbeki's watch works in the favor of Zuma, whose popular appeal is rooted in his peasant background with no formal education. In popular perception, the aloof and bookish Mbeki's exclusion of Zuma from the government was an echo of the exclusion of South Africa's poor from the fruits of South Africa's boom. Business...