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...think it will be controversial among scholars? I don't know. Scholarship in this general area is changing. In the past 50 years, so much archaeological evidence has appeared that suggests positive Jewish/Gentile relations during Augustine's period and after. The ground has been laid for revision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Saint Augustine Good for the Jews? | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

...used to be you could get a job at one of those factories, even without an education, and make a decent living to support your family," says letter carrier Dina Schueller, 33, of Saranac. Now her husband has been laid off from his construction job, and her brother moved to Maryland for work. Like many left-behind Michiganders, she'll be seeing fewer family members this season. "Christmas was always his favorite holiday," she says of her brother. "He was always the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Michigan, Still Waiting for the Renaissance | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...ought to be ready for recounts. To that end, it's typical for candidates to send advance teams of lawyers to precincts and states where the vote is expected to be close. The idea is that the legal groundwork for a recount and the financing of it can be laid down ahead of time. John Kerry and Bush had well-staffed legal teams in place in Ohio, Florida and other states before the 2004 presidential election for this very reason. Often, recounts are triggered automatically by extremely close margins, as in the Minnesota race; in some states, a candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recounts | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...wait for the café's signature Packer breakfast sandwich, which is two eggs and sausage covered in gravy on a biscuit, has been shorter than usual. On a recent Tuesday morning at 7 a.m., the restaurant was only a quarter full. "One of the drilling crews just got laid off," says waitress Theresa Steffen. "It's slowed down a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil-Price Drop Forces Big Energy to Retreat | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

Harvard University is inextricably associated with its elite reputation—something in which its students typically take pride. Yet in the attempt to keep up with that impressive image, it’s easy to become excessively concerned with how one’s own credentials—laid out in the form of a résumé—measure up. There are clear dangers to such an obsession, and it’s important to ensure that the endless drive to self-promote does not find students plunging to the bottom of a river...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: The Vanity in Veritas | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

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