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Mohler's view is, to a certain extent, shared by Joseph E. Kurtz, Archbishop of Louisville, who leads an ad hoc panel of U.S. Catholic bishops set up to fight gay marriage. He too sees a potential future when a greater acceptance of homosexuality leads to pressure on churches to conform, and even to change their teachings. "There are grave threats that decisions by the courts, legislative actions or regulations could erode religious freedom," Kurtz tells TIME. "With regard to marriage, this implicates the right of Catholics to practice our beliefs. Here we are talking about the bedrock of society...
...barrel; today, OPEC is twisting off the spigot in an attempt to support crude prices around $50. The International Energy Agency expects oil demand to fall this year at the steepest rate since the early 1980s. Some experts believe prices may stay depressed for years to come, due to greater energy efficiency, technological improvements in oil production and greater availability of alternative fuels such as biofuels. (Read a brief history of the oil barrel...
...Rosetta Stone: the barrier to entering the language learning market is small. "While we think its unique self-study program is scalable, niche software developers like this rarely enjoy success over the long-term," Lemos wrote in an April research note. "There are many larger software companies with much greater financial, research and development, and marketing resources, and Rosetta Stone's recent success could draw these firms into the market." It probably wouldn't cost a Microsoft or Google all that much to teach a foreign language. If these companies joined the translation trade, arrevederci to Rosetta Stone's dominance...
...trying to help the student," says Chris Gruber, Davidson's vice president for admission and financial aid. "It seems a little more genuine to us than perhaps somebody sitting at their desk and calling the five colleges that a student has been admitted to and trying to jockey for greater dollars...
...defenders say there's nothing radical about him. Koh supports voluntary U.S. participation in bodies like the International Criminal Court and has argued that international human-rights standards should influence U.S. law. His conservative supporters argue he also believes in strengthening Congress's role in treaty approval and in greater congressional say over foreign and national security policy. They say it's fine to attack a nominee for the Supreme Court, but when it comes to the Executive Branch, true conservatives give the President his pick of legal advisers. "Especially," says Starr, "in the quintessentially presidential duty of fashioning...