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...result—an egregiously Photoshopped but no less effective photo of the Crimson side of the stadium spelling out “We Suck” with colored pieces of cardboard—spread the anti-Harvard gospel for all the rest of America to see. (Way to just miss that detail...
...become a pseudoscience of mathematical formula manipulation that is devoid of humanity. This economics has conquered America’s business education and become fused with the robber baron culture of greed supremacy. American MBAs are taught to treat ordinary employees as disposable costs and to swallow uncritically the gospel that corporations exist only to reward abstract stockholders. MBAs are taught the pretend-science of manipulating accounting, finance, employees, customers, and stock prices. Financial games and hostile takeovers of competitors are taught to accomplish corporations’ sole objective—to make money and manipulate stock prices. Such...
...second revolution brought to completion by John Paul II is in the church's relationship to the Jewish people. Again, the shift began with Vatican II. The 1965 declaration Nostra Aetate famously renounced the "Christ killer" slander, the Gospel charge that the Jews are guilty of the murder of Jesus. This was the source of Christian contempt for the Jewish people, a tradition that the Nazis brought to the perverse conclusion of the Holocaust...
...Krauthammer's breathless paean to Bush's clairvoyance in orchestrating an unprecedented springtime of democracy in the Middle East would be far more convincing if in fact it had been premeditated. The rationale for the war in Iraq was never altruism or spreading the gospel of democracy. Rather, it was the clear and present danger of Saddam's arsenal of deadly weapons. Let's give credit where it's due, but please, spare us the notion that Bush had any idea what he was getting us into. Edmund C. Tiryakian Hong Kong...
...group of Australian soldiers played a few exhibition games and ran coaching clinics in an attempt to reintroduce the sport. Four years later, the Australian Football League got serious and, linking up with Australian Volunteers International, sent a development officer to South Africa to spread the footy gospel...