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...church council whose reforms stressed what Pope John XXIII called "the medicine of mercy rather than that of severity." Since confession, with its accompanying penances, is all too often associated with the latter, many Catholics use Vatican II as a cue to scratch the sacrament from their to-do list. Some also cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life), which reaffirmed the church's ban on contraception. Because few U.S. Catholics consider birth control immoral, Humanae Vitae has led to a wider re-evaluation of what constitutes sin--and whether confession is really necessary...
...It’s a throwback to a time when bookstores did nothing but sell books. The branch by Boston Common is housed in a creaky building with multiple floors of small nooks, all overflowing with used books and distressed leather armchairs. Its Web site a is no-nonsense list of new stock and pictures of the store locations. Bookstores like Commonwealth rely on a small, hard-core demographic that is willing to pay a premium for the experience of book buying in spite of the convenience of Amazon.com or large chains. This reliance on consumer loyalty creates a unique...
Although Bill Gates, the richest member of this year’s Forbes 400, is Harvard College’s most famous dropout, 42 people on the elite list actually did complete a Harvard degree. Of all the universities in the U.S., Harvard currently has the highest number of alumni recognized by Forbes magazine’s annual compilation of the wealthiest men and women in the nation. Stanford ranks second with 30 alumni, and the University of Pennsylvania ranks third with 24. Harvard Business School is the most well-represented division of the university, with 28 graduates...
...cautioned that the V-22's "probability of a successful autorotational landing ... is very low." Unable to rewrite the laws of physics, the Pentagon determined that the ability to perform the safety procedure was no longer a necessary requirement and crossed it off the V-22's must-have list. "An autorotation to a safe landing is no longer a formal requirement," a 2002 Pentagon report said. "The deletion of safe autorotation landing as a ... requirement recognizes the hybrid nature of the tilt-rotor...
Well, at the top of the list are our old friends the neoconservatives, the folks who provided the intellectual rationale for Bush's war in Iraq, many of whom are now itching for a war with Iran. Norman Podhoretz, the neocon paterfamilias, has written a trifle called World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism and loves to posit Ahmadinejad and Osama bin Laden-a far more dangerous character-as the heirs to Hitler and Stalin. "They follow the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism," he writes. This is incendiary foolishness. Terrorists have the ability to wreak terrible damage intermittently...