Word: milbank
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...More cynical observers think the answer is rooted in the fact the Reid faces what could be a difficult re-election in Nevada next year. "The reason was clear," wrote Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. "The attempt would excite his Democratic base in Nevada, which would give him credit for trying even when the plan ultimately failed, as it did this week. But Reid seemed not to have considered, or cared about, the collateral damage: forcing moderate Democrats such as Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas to cast a procedural vote in favor of the public option that could prove ruinous...
...have been laid-off since last September, according to industry website Lawshucks.com. "I'd love to take the money and go backpack around Thailand," says David Kirchblum, who graduates from Boston College's law school next week and had the start date for his job at New York firm Milbank Tweed pushed back to January 2010. "But if I suddenly have to find a new position, that gap is going to be difficult to explain...
...Kirchblum, for one, is now hunting for volunteer legal jobs overseas amid final exams, graduation and taking the bar exam. His biggest concern is money because he will only receive $20,000 from Milbank for being deferred, and he owes more than $100,000 in student loans. "Why I chose to take a firm job or even to go to law school in the first place was it seemed like the stable, responsible path," he says. "Now everything has been thrown...
Theologian John Milbank, whom you profiled as one of your innovative thinkers [INNOVATORS, Dec. 17], claims that there is no universal truth, as some philosophers assert, yet he uses this to "prove" that Christianity is the true creed. Milbank, like many philosophers, thinks he has found a way out, an answer to everything, but he is obviously still in the fight to prove his religion right. The truth is, he has not proved anything, and nobody ever will. We simply need to enjoy the wonders of life, feeling good and loving and helping others. Thought isn't for getting somewhere...
...effort made them academic stars--Milbank, 49, occupies a prestigious chair at the University of Virginia--and drew fierce fire. He notes that "I would not expect Muslims or Buddhists to buy this wholly, at all." Even some fellow believers find it hard to square his vision of a peaceful, all-embracing Christianity with the religion that burned heretics and launched crusades. Besides, not everyone is a postmodernist. Conservatives cringe when he says that discussions of the actual physical reality of the resurrection have "no place" in his theology. But at the very least, he has cleared...