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...While a change in your Iraq policy will best advance our chances for success, we do not believe the current civilian leadership at the Department of Defense is suited to implement and oversee such a change in policy." LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH, signed by a dozen congressional Democrats, urging him to replace Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "Creating Don Rumsfeld as a bogeyman may make for good politics but would make for very lousy strategy at this time." TONY SNOW, White House press secretary, in rebuttal "Our educational system has been affected by 150 years of secular thought and has raised...
...than they at first may seem. In each case it is not wealth itself that disqualifies but the inability to understand its relative worthlessness compared with the riches of heaven. The same thing applies to Paul's famous line, "Money is the root of all evil," in his first letter to Timothy. The actual quote is, "The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil...
...quiet confines of German academia. Then one day in 1977, the professor-priest received a fateful visit from a Church official in his study at the University of Regensburg. "We chatted about some insignificant matters," Ratzinger recalled in his memoirs "Milestones, 1927-1977" "and then finally he pressed a letter into my hand, telling me to read it and think it over at home...
...That letter contained the Bavarian native?s appointment to become his home region's Archbishop in Munich. It was a choice (by Pope Paul VI) that not only altered Ratzinger's career path, but the course of Catholic Church history. After five years as Munich Arcbishop, Ratzinger was eventually called to Rome by Pope John Paul II to become the Vatican?s chief of doctrine and discipline and two decades later Pope Benedict...
...Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the change in an open letter posted on the user?s home page at 2:00 a.m. PST. His 480-word letter was a dramatic change from a blog post written Tuesday afternoon, in which Zuckerberg coolly defended the News Feed feature. Friday?s letter was humbling...