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...fully aware that American hubris and misjudgment - lots of both - have gotten us into the mess we're in. Yet at the same time, I must honestly say I'm proud of America's global achievements. Behind U.S. global expansion was an ideal of a world based on free enterprise, mutual prosperity and open societies. It was that ideal that brought my Holocaust-survivor grandparents through Ellis Island in 1949 in the hopes of rebuilding their lives and finding better opportunities for their 3-year-old daughter - my mother. These ideals have too often been trampled by greed or myopic...
Despite the pain of recent economic turmoil, German voters resoundingly reiterated their faith in the free market during the country's Sept. 27 national elections. A victory by Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union puts the party on track to form a new center-right coalition with the smaller Free Democratic Party, whose leader, Guido Westerwelle, is likely to be tapped as Vice Chancellor. Merkel's previous coalition partner, the left-leaning Social Democratic Party, suffered its worst election loss since World War II. Merkel and Westerwelle are expected to cut taxes, promote business and strengthen Germany...
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...Israelite male babies, Moses is floated down the Nile, picked up by the pharaoh's daughter and raised in the palace. An adult Moses murders an Egyptian for beating "one of his kinsmen," then flees to the desert, where, later, a voice in a burning bush recruits him to free the Israelites. This moment represents Moses' first leadership test: Will he cling to his unburdened life or attempt to free a people enslaved for centuries...
...even as abolitionists used the Exodus to attack slavery, Southerners used it to defend the institution. The War Between the States became the War Between the Moseses. Slaveholders cited a bevy of biblical passages - Abraham acquires slaves; Moses invites slaves to the first Passover; Jesus does nothing to free slaves - to claim the Bible endorsed slavery. The book that joined Americans together was torn asunder by slavery. (See the top 10 Jesus films...