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...Maybe. It's hard to see terrorism just going away after we, say, flatten Afghanistan. "What are we going to do?," asks a Democratic Congressional staffer, "Turn Kabul from rubble into smaller rubble?" Still, it's not impossible that we're overestimating the enemy just as we did in Kosovo and Iraq where we vanquished the opponents with relative haste. (True, Saddam clung to power; but the fears that the Gulf War would leave tens of thousands of American troops dead were quickly eliminated after 100 hours of ground fighting.) It may be that the Bin Laden network...
...everyone approves of Bright's reductivism, which historian Mark Noll once said led to an evangelical environment that is "naive, inept or tendentious." Columbia University religion professor Randall Balmer contends that the Laws "flatten the Gospel," while CCC's culture cramps "faith into a dualism between saved and damned, right and wrong, moral and immoral." Immoral often meant liberal: Bright helped lay the groundwork for the religious right. Of his stylistic critics, he notes "Jesus had to be simple so the masses would hear him gladly...
...August but in January of1991, when Soviet tanks moved into Vilnius in a bloody but unsuccessful effort to crush the Lithuanian independence movement. There I saw soldiers take over the country's main TV tower, waving to us as they raced to the building. I watched a tank effortlessly flatten a heavy truck that had been pulled across the road to block its path, and stared at the dead bodies of young people who a few hours earlier had been dancing in an improvised disco at the foot of the TV tower. After the attack, we journalists spread out across...
...Goodheart, muscle testing is the diagnostic gold standard. He prods and palpates patients head to toe, searching for tiny tears where muscles attach to bone. These tears feel, he says, like "a bb under a strip of raw bacon." When "directional pressure" is applied, the bb's flatten, and slack muscles snap back, their strength restored...
...Goodheart, muscle testing is the diagnostic gold standard. He prods and palpates patients head to toe, searching for tiny tears where muscles attach to bone. These tears feel, he says, like "a bb under a strip of raw bacon." When "directional pressure" is applied, the bb's flatten, and slack muscles snap back, their strength restored...