Word: minding
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Today, the term “religious conflict” might bring to mind the troubles in the Middle East and the culture clash between the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. Perhaps it might recall the rise of the Evangelical Right in America and the debate over the teaching of evolution and intelligent design in schools. But in his book “The Best of All Possible Worlds,” Steven Nadler evokes a time when the greatest religious conflicts were located within the Christian Church itself, between Protestantism and Catholicism. Nadler relays the intellectual debate that took...
...These wild swings are unsettling. But against the backdrop of virtually unprecedented uncertainty and complexity that surrounds the meltdown of the global financial system, they are not necessarily irrational. They mimic the mind-set of investors who are cycling between greed and fear as they try to assess whether financial stability is returning, and whether the market has reached bottom after a long and costly plunge. Investors are trying to judge whether stocks have indeed become cheap, as some gurus including Warren Buffett have recently argued...
...What goes through your mind when somebody hands you a $1 million check? You feel pretty happy. I always knew I was going to ride bulls for a living, or hoped that was what I was going to do. But I never had any idea that I would be able to make the living that I've been able to. I owe every bit of it to the guys who started the Professional Bull Riders. Without them, I'd be no different than all the really good bull riders before me that rodeoed all their lives and when they were...
...Just a little more than 10 years ago," Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin told TIME this week, "it was inconceivable to any of us that we would see an African American win a national party's ticket and then compete effectively. It's mind-boggling," she continued, "how much this means about the opportunities available to all people - Asians, Latinos and other people who've historically been locked out of the system." (See pictures of Election 2008 in the heart of the Civil Rights struggle...
...gamble with his most precious political asset: his brand. Team McCain was convinced that to capture the GOP nomination, its man had to prove himself a real Republican in every way. And so it made a bet: the McCain brand was so well established in the public's mind that he had plenty of latitude to woo suspicious conservatives without damaging his reputation as a straight-talking, independent maverick. Or so Team McCain believed. "Americans know John McCain," Mark Salter, the Senator's closest adviser, assured me back in the spring of 2007. "They know his record. They know...