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...Bush's overheated sense of good vs. evil has been reinforced by the intellectual fantasies of neoconservatives like I. Lewis Libby and Paul Wolfowitz, who serve Bush's two most powerful advisers, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. It was neoconservatives who provided the philosophical rationale for the President's gut response to the evildoers of Sept. 11: a grand crusade-yes, a crusade-to establish democracy in Iraq and then, via a benign tumbling of local dominoes, throughout the Middle East. Those who opposed the crusade opposed democracy. Those who opposed the President coddled terrorists (according to recent G.O.P...
...should you approach this gut-wrenching issue? Do nothing drastic. The economy will sink or swim on its own merits. Far too much is made of the recession post--Sept. 11, 2001. It had begun long before the attacks and, arguably, ended more quickly because of them. Yet a few adjustments can smooth any terrorism-related market bumps and raise the odds that you will stay invested long term. "Think through the scenarios," says David Darst, chief strategist at Morgan Stanley Individual Investor Group. "People do themselves a disservice to ignore the threat." How to protect your portfolio...
...think he takes himself a little bit too seriously and he thinks the students who take his class are buying into his idealism and his concept of a perfect world, when most people are taking it because it’s a gut. I also think he’s one-sided in his opinions in the way he looks at the world. And you can see that in his response to Kavulla [Editorial Column, “Brian Palmer’s Academy,” Feb. 24]. He ignores the big elephant in the room that there...
...understand its not a simple sell because people’s gut reaction is ‘I don’t want to pay any more money,’” Anello says...
...proves again what we have long known about movies: artists should write about and direct what they know. They should produce from their passion. But too often pictures made by Christians have been thinly veiled propaganda vehicles. They have not been the sort of art that comes from the gut. Some evangelical consultants urged Gibson to add explanatory verses of Scripture at the end of The Passion. To his credit, Gibson insisted that he wanted to retain some mystery, some impetus for viewers to return to their churches and their Bibles to ferret out the truths represented...