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...possible to be. He is a member of the striving, secularist Baghdad middle class (or what's left of it), working as a trusted, English-speaking freelance journalist and TV cameraman, without, so far as we can tell, an ideological thought in his head. This is a matter he keeps trying to explain to his captors, who are not paying the slightest attention to him. They believe their intel, not the evidence of their own eyes and ears...
Faust’s books are explorations of the acquisition of power, both within great legislative chambers and on plantations. No matter what Confederate apologists might think, slavery was not based on the passive acquiescence of an accepting slave population. The subjugation of the slave population was also not the immediate outcome of overwhelming force. Instead, mastery was a constant fight where whites used violence to repress people who never gave up, using both their minds and bodies to either escape or limit the impact of slavery. Faust’s “Mothers of Invention...
...Sweet Sixteen, another four days of college hoops drama that will whittle down the men's tournament to the precious Final Four? Got Georgetown in your office pool? Are you an Ohio State alum? Want the Salukis of Southern Illinois to crash the big-school party? No matter who you're pulling for this weekend, just pray for one thing...
...current civic climate makes it a "now more than ever" proposition. Says Stephen Prothero, chair of the Boston University religion department, whose new book, Religious Literacy (Harper SanFrancisco), presents a compelling argument for Bible-literacy courses: "In the late '70s, [students] knew nothing about religion, and it didn't matter. But then religion rushed into the public square. What purpose could it possibly serve for citizens to be ignorant of all that?" The "new consensus" for secular Bible study argues that knowledge of it is essential to being a full-fledged, well-rounded citizen. Let's examine that argument...
...year. In a 1992 survey of English teachers to determine the top-10 required "book-length works" in high school English classes, plays by Shakespeare occupied three spots and the Bible none. And yet, let's compare the two: Beauty of language: Shakespeare, by a nose. Depth of subject matter: toss-up. Breadth of subject matter: the Bible. Numbers published, translated etc: Bible. Number of people martyred for: Bible. Number of wars attributed to: Bible. Solace and hope provided to billions: you guessed it. And Shakespeare would almost surely have agreed. According to one estimate, he alludes to Scripture some...