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Grassley rejects the criticism. "We're not looking at doctrine. I don't know much about the words Prosperity gospel," he says. But he acknowledges that religious-freedom concerns may make an investigation a "little more difficult to defend." Fellow Senators--"I won't give their names"--have asked what they should tell the preachers. Says Grassley: "My answer was, 'Tell them to do what all the other nonprofits do--answer my letter.'" And hope for a different kind of grace...
...absorbs the moment because we are doing it with understanding,” Epstein says. The audience’s comprehension of these pieces is something that remains very important to Scanlan, who provides a succinct exegesis before each play while attempting to preserve his audience’s freedom of interpretation. “I have to interpret the pieces to perform them, but this interpretation is not meant to be reductive,” he says. New elements were also added to the production. “For Beckett’s 100th anniversary, everyone was doing revivals...
...identity, and the danger of losing one’s reputation because of the Internet has only increased since then.In “The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet,” George Washington Law Professor Daniel J. Solove eloquently postulates that the new freedom of information-flow on the Internet can enslave us by ruining our reputations and preventing us from becoming the people we want to be. This statement is indeed slightly extreme, and may put off some readers initially, but Solove backs his point by highlighting several case studies, including the Star...
...likely to assimilate to “American culture.” But at the heart of the entire debate are competing concepts of national identity. For some it means Christian values, English language, and little identification with any specific ethnicity. For others it only means shared values of freedom and justice. Yet, this again, misses the crux of the issue. The truth is that there never has been a “typical” American. We are a nation of many faiths, colors, and ethnicities, and we are strong, not in spite of it, but largely because...
...first priority is requests pending under the Freedom of Information Act. And any potential political muckrakers must get in a line - a very long line - of nearly 300 FOIA requests. Those requests are given full-time attention by a mere six archivists, whose numbers reflect the budget limitations they are working under...