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...voyage of discovery. It's an unmapped road, and we're all going down it for the first time - but together. With luck, our descendants won't have to recover from anything very poisonous. Peter Terry Kelvin, South Africa Manly Hand-Holding Joe Klein's column "the perils of Hands-On Diplomacy" [May 9] called attention to the photo of President Bush walking down an uneven path in Texas hand in hand with the infirm 80-year-old Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. There is nothing "unmanly" - as Klein characterized it - in extending a helping hand. Klein seems to lack...
...Klein's column "The Perils of Hands-On Diplomacy" [May 9] called attention to the photo of President Bush walking down an uneven path in Texas hand in hand with the infirm 80-year-old Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. There is nothing "unmanly"-as Klein characterized it-in extending a helping hand. Klein seems to lack any cultural awareness of the world outside...
After the hands-on tutorial in public service, PBHA provides access to the second component in pre-professional preparation: money. “The Stride Rite does an amazing job of connecting people and passion and dreams and allowing people to really explore that,” says Katya Fels ’93, board member at the Stride Rite Foundation and herself a Stride Rite recipient. $25,000 may appear to be a hefty sum, but it’s given by people who have experienced public service first-hand. “The Stride Rite people are realistic...
...Saudi Arabia unfavorably with other American allies. Kinder pronouncements are made by those whose expectations are tempered by the reality that this is a country named for a family. Another factor is the assessor's rank; top-level officials commenting on the record tend to be more generous than hands-on investigators speaking privately. Armitage has said that since May 12, "cooperation on things that are internal to Saudi Arabia has been magnificent." On the other hand, a top Administration counterterrorism official told TIME he has "significant concerns" about the level of assistance from Riyadh...
...becomes a meditation on faith. Church facilities have been updated with computer stations for video games like Bible Grand Slam and movie theaters for features like The Creation, narrated by Amy Grant. Teachers are baking unleavened bread as they read Exodus and aiming slingshots at large bottles for a hands-on study of David and Goliath. Adolescent souls are being wooed with skateboarding, surfing and hiking classes that teens attend with gear in one hand and Bible in the other. In short, churches are preaching to members of the Nickelodeon generation in the showy, attention-grabbing language they understand...