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...Faith, God and the Oval Office In "the faith factor" Nancy Gibbs explored the issue of religion and politics and the faith of George W. Bush [June 21]. As a lifelong Christian, I am appalled that the President can get away with calling himself a Christian. Bush may see the pre-emptive use of force as an acceptable form of self-defense, but Jesus said those who live by the sword will die by it. Jesus taught us to love our enemies, judge no one as evil, pray modestly in private and value humility over self-righteousness. These teachings seem...
Jefferson, a lifelong Francophile, desperately wanted to like Napoleon. Three years before he would double the size of the U.S. by purchasing the Louisiana Territory from the French ruler, Jefferson was struggling from afar to understand Napoleon's increasingly power-hungry motives. At first, Jefferson held out hope that France was in the hands of an enlightened statesman. By April 1800, when he addressed Everard Meade, a Virginia state legislator, Jefferson was growing disillusioned. He was worried that the French example of a republic lost to a despot would shake faith in the U.S.'s fledgling government. But thanks...
...casinos, once publicity shy, now understand the value of TV. According to CSI creator (and lifelong Vegas resident) Anthony Zuiker, the turning point came not with his show but in 2002 when MTV's The Real World taped a season in Vegas and drew an enthusiastic young audience. "Before that," he says, "there were a lot of problems when we were trying to shoot in Vegas. The executives at the casinos were afraid to show dead bodies." (Partly for budgetary reasons, the scripted Vegas series still shoot mostly in L.A.) Now even cartoonists are rolling the dice: this fall...
...better in staving off age-related mental decline. Researchers compared monolingual to bilingual adults in a test of cognitive function, and bilingualism seemed to offer a protective benefit. Bear in mind that those bilinguals have used two languages daily since they were children; researchers believe it is the lifelong experience of managing two languages that counts...
Still, in spite of his lifelong academic career, Sen has remained strongly interested in the world outside the university gates. He travels frequently and says he cannot remember spending more than six months away from India since his student days...