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...nice if Jim Carrey were your local bank officer, who smilingly approved every loan, even if your need were bizarre and your collateral nonexistent? Wouldn't your soul be soothed if Will Smith were a Treasury agent who gave you a six-month extension on the pile you owe the IRS? You needn't be a financial tycoon to get a home- or pension-saving Christmas gift - not when these two stars are playing Santa...
...Augustine of Hippo (354-430) was probably the most influential Christian thinker after the Gospel writers and St. Paul. It is to him that we owe such doctrines as original sin and predestination. Yet he has traditionally been unpopular with those concerned about Christian treatment of Jews over the centuries, a disapproval that was expressed eight years ago by the popular historian James Carroll in his much read book Constantine's Sword. Carroll wrote that Augustine and his followers believed that Jews "must be allowed to survive, but never to thrive" so that their public misery would broadcast their "proper...
...decline in lung-cancer incidence even among women, a reversal of the overall trend in lung-cancer rates, which have been steadily increasing in women since 1975. Researchers say the difference in lung-cancer rates between the sexes - incidence has been dropping in men since 1991 - may owe in part to the fact that women in the U.S. began smoking decades later than...
...recover from it,” he said. Still, he doesn’t want to dwell on the project for much longer; he’s afraid of receiving a letter from the Beckett estate reading, “You have used Beckett too many times. You owe Beckett...
...Photography” portends this reversal of thought, and I believe it speaks to a belief held by the tinyvices crew. “Photographs don’t seem beholden to the intentions of an artist,” she writes, “rather, they owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject...which even when capricious can produce a result that is interesting and never entirely wrong.” Never entirely wrong, indeed.—Columnist Ruben L. Davis can be reached at rldavis@fas.harvard.edu...