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...claim, was bloody history. But in a new book, Augustine and the Jews, Paula Fredriksen, a Boston University religion professor and self-proclaimed "Augustinista," upends the received wisdom. Fredriksen is no coddler of anti-Judaism. A former Catholic who long ago converted to Judaism, she was one of Mel Gibson's most acerbic critics when he released his movie The Passion of the Christ. But her book's subtitle, "A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism," describes what she contends was Augustine's actual stance on the topic, one she says was "was little short of revolutionary" - in a good...
...milked the story for all it was worth, as any news organization would do. But ABC's VIPs are not strangers to corporate jets. This week there's ABC's Charlie Gibson interviewing George Bush on Marine One, the helicopter the President uses to get out of town to Camp David. You think Charlie took Amtrak to Washington to meet the President? Even if he did, it's fairly routine for the networks to ferry their precious anchors around by private jet these days. (And while we're at it, why can't Bush take a carpool to Camp David...
...Hillary supporters and conservative women alike, certainly played a role in her selection, too.Palin even speaks in sound bites. As Peggy Noonan wrote in The Wall Street Journal, “She does not speak seriously but attempts to excite sensation.” As her interviews with Charles Gibson and Katie Couric have shown, when pressed beyond the clever quip she is at a loss for words. But, like the news media loop, she is a worshipful student of the inflammatory sentence (i.e., the suggestion that Barack Obama has been “palling around with terrorists?...
...Fight” is hair-splitting in the best possible sense. A wailing, brief guitar riff that tickles the ear leaves its calling card throughout the rest of the song, lingering in the psyche and making my fingers itch to try out that line on my Gibson SG air guitar. “Smash and Grab” is another favorite, with a particularly strong and moving rhythm section, not to mention the sick guitar solo just before the end. Man, can Angus still jive and wail. But the most surprising song is “Anything Goes...
...hair, was long-waisted and slender, what we all wanted to look like,” Lacy J. Dalton, a self-described “hard-luck” chanteuse and former fellow West Villager, has said. She could certainly sing and strum the banjo (and a 12-string Gibson guitar to boot), but Karen Dalton didn’t pen a single track on either of the two albums she managed to record in her lifetime. Fully gripped by the cult of the Singer-Songwriter—the belief that one needed to be both a vocalist...