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TIME: So Augustine is not the bad guy regarding the Jews that historians so often conjure? Fredriksen: Let's say that Augustine was much more benign socially - at least toward Jews - than people have usually thought...
...know that? There are two kinds of evidence. First, from his life. Recently we've recovered a nice little memo of his to a fellow bishop on behalf of a plaintiff, telling that bishop to get his sticky fingers off this guy's property. The plaintiff whose side he takes is a Jew, and Augustine even quotes St. Paul to the effect of not creating a scandal "in front of the Jews." But more important is the theological 180-degree turn Augustine does between 395 and 398. He has moved from demeaning Jews and disparaging Judaism to becoming the only...
...United States. This begs the question: what has fueled the transformation of skinny, marsupial-enthusiast surfers with great accents into unappealing couch potatoes? My very scientific answer: great television. I can’t help but think that, in a country with more outdoor adventures than even the guy from “Man vs. Wild” can handle, there must be something compelling keeping Aussies indoors and clutching sweaty cans of Fosters. More specifically than just Aussie TV in general, I point to a kind of irreverent humor that grew out of the unintelligible British model of comedy...
...scuffle, Valentina delivers the line (in cavewoman monosyllables), “You fight good. But you tie bad.” She solidifies her hold over his heart in a lengthy monologue about food and a thinly veiled analogy of herself as a glass of chilled wine. For a guy who doesn’t open his soul to anyone, Martin is remarkably easy to win over. The plot is fuzzily sketched out, with side trips that contribute nothing to the storyline except to set the scene for another fight. To cover up this lack of substance, there?...
...Mexican culture. The event was moderated by Alfredo Corchado, a Nieman Foundation fellow and the Mexico bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News. Suros said that in the past Mexicans were prejudiced against the consumption of tequila. “The images that we have are the ranchero, the guy in the cantina, guys getting drunk and singing with a bottle of tequila,” Suros said. “Many people in Mexico, especially the high society stopped drinking. It was for the peasants, the workers. The United States started drinking it. Then tequila became okay to drink...