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...Asked if a President should be guided by his faith when making policy, 63% of Democrats say no while 70% of Republicans say yes. The gap would probably be even wider if it were not for those black voters who tend to be socially conservative, attend church regularly but nonetheless vote for Democrats...
...Religion Gap presents both Bush and Kerry with special challenges. Kerry not only has to walk a line between his personal faith--that of the 11-year-old altar boy who used to write his sister to remind her to say her prayers--and the more secular leanings of his core voters. He also faces a small squad of conservative Catholic bishops who say they would refuse to serve Communion to politicians who, like Kerry, reject the church's teachings on issues such as abortion. One has gone so far as to suggest that any unrepentant Catholic who even votes...
...creates the energy which makes you incredibly powerful when you race - that's the third dimension of competition." Partly, she says, it's about rediscovering her youth, when performing was based on intuition, instinct and feeling. Experience eats away at those forces, the confidence goes, bad thoughts fill the gap, and "you completely spin yourself out." Rebuilding that instinct, and making it congruent with your life, restores a sense of direction and awareness of self and others. When she reaches "that beautiful spot" in a race when intuition takes over, Kendall knows she's unbeatable. In the fleet at Athens...
Summers emphasized the achievement gap between children from rich and poor families, as well as the disparity in access to a college education among children from advantaged and disadvantaged economic backgrounds...
...task force with former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger ’50. They concluded their year-long work in March, when Summers traveled to D.C. to release the findings: the United States’ relationship with Europe is strained and both sides must work to bridge the gap. He has also begun to speak out on major economic issues separate from the academy, like the lecture he delivered to the Institute for International Economics on the problem of low American savings and his trip to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum...