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Among the social movements of the last century, which one brought a hope that empowered and inspired the poor with a life-changing insight that eventually transformed entire nations and cultures? The movement remains popular, growing by the thousands each day. It is not Communism, nor the golden arches of Capitalism, nor the technology boom. The movement is Pentecostalism, a spiritual movement largely ignored by Western academics who are still hoping religion will finally go away. This bias has left too many educated people ignorant of a ballooning world-wide social phenomenon...
...every project in which I’ve ever worked with him, he has brought cutting analytic insight, a fresh perspective and a remarkable ability to combine normative theory, innovative economic analysis and an understanding of practical economics and politics,” said Jane J. Mansbridge, Adams professor of political leadership at the Kennedy School of Government...
...other plaintiffs’ arguments require evidence that simply is not available. They argue they were not fully aware of the risks of smoking due to tobacco companies’ deceptive tactics, which included misleading advertising and understatement of health risks. Proving such an argument requires clairvoyant insight into decisions made decades ago. The plaintiff’s word should not be enough, especially when so much money is at stake...
...know?” he mused contemplatively. “And that lamp,” he said while pointing at the moon, “it’s totally just chilling too!” Johnson then borrowed a pen so that he could write his insight about the lamp down on his hand...
...Sambo / And just when I think that I’m about to go Rambo / I call up my friend and he says he understands yo.” He tackles social climbing in the tragicomic “Status,” whose raw beat, supplied by Insight, is, according to the skit that precedes it, due to Lif’s inability to muster anything more than a sandwich with which to pay him. “Hip hop is so wack, the beats are fighting back,” Lif declaims on “Return...