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Bush claims that the people that these organizations seek to help—recovering drug addicts, alcoholics, and the poor, among others??are free to choose between religiously affiliated or secular programs. But often, these people will enroll in the most vocal or the best financed organizations. It is hard to imagine a homeless person who is offered help by a group refusing it just because of the group’s religious affiliation. Other times, those most in need of help by these charitable groups have no choice at all. For example, the only vocational training available...
...says. “Maybe I overused that. I think it became a cliché, as it was such an easy way to capture him. Everyone would agree that he’s certainly a brilliant mind, and abrasive was shorthand for perhaps not always being sensitive to others?? feelings. I think it was a reputation that continued when he was at the Treasury because he would be outspoken in dealing with reporters and wasn’t afraid of tackling difficult subjects...
Similarly, Jon Brion—who has produced for Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, and about three dozen others??is exceptional at producing movie “pop” that isn’t the product of a sell-out (I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Pop music does have a place in the movies, and a very important place. I just don’t want that place to be in music videos masquerading as films...
...Spoken Word Society has been a truly inspiring and invigorating family for me, a strong group of people who love the power of the word but also love service and connecting with others??The workshops help serve as spaces to relax and to inspire people to write in any form (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, rap), and the open mics bring out peoples of all types. I really enjoy the way that we have tied the word to teaching and involvement with middle schools and high schools...
...book is flawed from page one, but that would be inaccurate. Rather, the flaws start on page viii, in the prefatory “acknowledgments” section, in which the author writes that he is “indebted” to Thernstrom—among others??for agreeing to be interviewed...