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...Traditional allies won't be the only ones with questions following Dr. Rice's confirmation hearing. The State Department staff who have been told to gather on Friday to welcome their new boss will certainly be keen to understand just what she meant by her call on them to learn new skills in pursuit of what she called "transformational diplomacy," adding that U.S. diplomats will need to become more active in "spreading democracy and fighting terror." "Spreading democracy" has not exactly been the top priority of diplomats, who by definition tend to avoid activism. Getting them to embrace...
...inimical foreign elements. Talat Waseem, Press Counselor Embassy of Pakistan to the U.S. Washington Is God in Our Genes? Your story [Nov. 29] asks, "did humans create religion from cues sent from above, or did evolution instill in us a sense of the divine so that we would gather into the communities essential to keeping the species going?" As an atheist turned agnostic turned theist turned Christian, I find myself embracing a theory that both sides find controversial: intelligent design. We are created with the need for God by God. Amy E. Mitchell Eaton, Ohio, U.S. Poor Intelligence "In Your...
Meanwhile, in the town of Hutto, north of Austin, the construction on State Highway 130 is a sign of things to come. Farmers no longer gather at the cotton gin, but the town's first national chain, Home Depot, has moved in. Mayor Mike Ackerman drives by the construction site every day on his way to work and is sanguine about the changing face of his town. "Anything we can do to get traffic moving north and south, we need to do," he says. The question is whether the rest of Texas agrees with him. --With reporting by Hilary Hylton/Austin
...nation's airlines, meanwhile, are bridling under a new directive from the TSA that takes effect this week. In what the TSA says is an effort to gather all security information in a central clearinghouse to track trends, the agency is demanding that carriers "immediately" report to the TSA each incident that could be considered a security threat. The airlines already report security concerns to the TSA. But they say that being forced to report even minor incidents--and first to the TSA rather than the FBI, which has both the legal jurisdiction to handle crimes aboard aircraft and more...
...museum pieces of purity. Is that hypocritical? Yes, because the fan-athlete relationship is inherently hypocritical: fans want sports heroes to be more admirable than the rest of us. We used to worship athletes for being mightier, faster, greater than we could imagine. The day may come when we gather in stadiums--with our bought-and-paid-for brains, bodies and libidos--and cheer on players for making do with less...