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This familiar mantra surfaced last week in the Justice Department's mea culpa letter to the McVeigh defense lawyers. Justice floated it in hopes that the media would pick it up and repeat it. And we did. But the government's argument is laughable. How would a prosecutor know what's important to a defendant's case? Prosecutors use the excuse to minimize their misconduct under the theory "no harm, no foul," but the courts should punish those who deliberately hold back important evidence. Yet judges too often look the other...
...Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, is famous for saying “speak softly, but carry a big stick.” With its position at the forefront of national education, the mantra might as well be about Harvard. Historically, some of the nation’s most important education reforms have emerged from Harvard’s own bully pulpit...
...addressing the role of various groups in our community and said: ‘Remember you—the students—are here for four years; the faculty is here for life; and the institution is here forever.” Rosovsky writes how the quote became a mantra for The Crimson in those years and was soon spoofed on campus, being used to advertise that Diamonds, rather than Harvard, are Forever...
There are eight major schools of yoga, from Bhakti, which is mostly about prayer and mantra chanting, to Tantra, which is largely about sex. Most yoga studios and fitness centers in America teach some type of Hatha yoga, the yoga of activity. Hatha comes in hundreds of different flavors--each emphasizing different body postures and breathing techniques. These are some of the most popular...
Wilkinson, 53, says he first heard about the prayer from a seminary chaplain 30 years ago and has been "praying Jabez" as a kind of evangelical mantra ever since. What he appears to have found most attractive is the prayer's expansiveness. Evangelical life abounds in thou shalt nots and stresses humility before God. By contrast, Jabez's demand that the deity "bless me indeed" seems buoyant and liberating. Reading the volume's back-cover blurb ("Do you want to be extravagantly blessed by God?"), one might even imagine that Wilkinson is selling Prosperity Theology, a widespread if superficial gospel...