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...this knee-jerk response ignores the role that faith plays in the lives of many Americans—including intellectuals at institutions such as Notre Dame. While many agnostics might be loath to admit it, intense religiosity is not entirely antithetical to intellectualism. It might be hard for the card-carrying pro-choice Democrat at Harvard to comprehend that a young, bright college student or university scholar would object to Obama as Notre Dame’s commencement speaker. It is nearly impossible for many Ivy League intellects to associate him with anything but progressivism, hope, change, and various other...
...Programs like Shakti, which successfully mix philanthropy with the bottom line, may show the way forward for companies trying to preserve their CSR programs in the rocky economic climate. Although companies are loath to admit that they are cutting their spending on social programs, nonprofit organizations tell TIME that since the recession hit, several have canceled commitments to help fund projects. "We have had three or four partners pull out since October or November, after we had every expectation of the money," says the head of a small organization in London that runs youth programs in eight countries, mostly...
...pushback from his Kurdish allies, some of whom have called him "the new Saddam." That schism is bound to widen in the coming months, when the U.N. issues its findings over the disputed oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, which Kurds claim as their "Jerusalem" but which Arabs are loath to let go of. (See a TIME photographer's record of the Iraq...
...violates the most sacred right enshrined in the state constitution: the right for all people to be treated with dignity and fairness. Just 10 months later, gay couples - whether or not they are among the 18,000 who married in the state before Prop 8 stopped the ceremonies - are loath to lose a word for which so many fought so hard and so long to have apply to themselves...
...bailout that Congress passed last fall to help stabilize the nation's ailing banks. Half of that money has already been used up by the Bush Administration, and with little indication that such usage has helped ease the flow of lending to consumers and businesses, members of Congress are loath to hand over the rest of the money without guarantees of greater oversight and transparency. And so Senate Democratic leaders are struggling to prevent their members from passing a Resolution of Disapproval of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, which would prevent the second half of the emergency fund...