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...call Abraham a neglected giant of the Bible; almost everyone knows the outline of his story. But until recently he probably has not received the credit he deserves as a religious innovator. Asbiblical pioneer of the idea that there is only one God, he is on a par with Moses, St. Paul and Muhammad, responsible for what Thomas Cahill, author of the 1998 history The Gifts of the Jews, calls "a complete departure from everything that has gone before in the evolution of culture and sensibility." In other words, Abraham changed the world...
...times, “unilateralist” has become a dirty word, an insult on par with “belligerent aggressor” and a refrain of choice for critics of the present administration. We hear, from European politicians and American intellectuals, a ceaseless jeremiad about the dangers of unilateral U.S. action. Consider, for example, the lament of Peter Kilfoyle, a member of the British parliament, in his recent op-ed in The Crimson. After deciding that Islamic terrorism is the result of globalization and the polarization of the “haves?...
...tricky tee shot over water and nasty, undulating green, allowed Baizer a very favorable lie in a hazard yesterday—an “almost unheard of” occurence, she said—and she promptly converted it for a respectable showing on the difficult par...
Penn State won the tourney by 20 strokes, buoyed by Katie Futcher’s astounding 3-under-par finish...
...tour headquarters in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, where it has been since they staged history's biggest final-day rally to win in 1999. London bookmakers have the U.S. as a 1-to-2 favorite. The Ryder Cup, though, pays little heed to rankings, to the routine par 72 and four rounds. It's a different ball game. In the three-day match-play format, each match is worth a point; the team with the most points wins. The first two mornings at the Belfry will feature fourballs - four two-on-two matches in which the golfers play their...