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...they were emphatic in their understanding of a decidedly nonvictimized Christ as a great champion against an evil that is a real and formidable supernatural force--of invisible kingdoms battling above our heads and below our feet. That conception survives in Martin Luther's great hymn A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, in the Revelation-based Left Behind books and in the eerie getting-to-know-you scene between Christ and the devil that opens Gibson's film. But it did not come to define Western Christianity's majority understanding of the meaning of Christ's death. That honor went...
...year ago, would not have survived Washington's brutal ways in the service of three Presidents if he had not been a good politician. And last week he needed all the political skills he could muster for what he was about to do--direct a missile at the very fortress that so far has protected Bush's presidential advantage in this campaign season: the perception that, for all his faults, Bush has done everything he could to keep the country safe and managed the war on terrorism well. In an early March Gallup poll, the President's approval rating...
...placing more cameras on our subway platforms, maybe we should be asking why the terrorists hate us. If we do not focus on the reasons for terrorism as well as the terrorists, the body searches we accept at airports may be only the beginning of life in the new fortress America...
...With U.S. job generation sputtering - employers created just 21,000 jobs last month, one-fifth of analysts' expectations - offshoring remains a red-hot election-year issue. Yet in Britain , where the jobless rate stands at a 20-year low, offshoring is making new friends. "No country can be a fortress economy in today's global market," said Trades Union Congress general secretary Brendan Barber. This week the TUC will submit a report to the U.K. government on the benefits of international competition. That kind of talk could move Barber's job offshore. - By Adam Smith Running On Empty Philip Watts...
...fortress-like facade of Harvard’s iron gates has been cracked by the recent string of assaults around campus. Spurred by this alarming wave of attacks, Harvard has initiated a laudable campaign to bolster security. In the last few weeks, the College has extended shuttle and van operation hours, deployed more HUPD patrols, e-mailed safety alerts directly to students, launched the Harvard University Campus Escort Service Program (HUCEP) to replace the now-defunct SafetyWalk and created a centralized hotline (4-8237) to help students maneuver the new services and dispatch late-night police escorts. While Harvard?...