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There are certain fringe elements in all religions--those who believe their path is superior and hence passionately believe in proselytizing--and, unfortunately, these people are the ones that do most of the shouting. Yet most religious Americans, whatever their faith, do not believe in this message. Instead they try to live their lives according to their God--to be a good Christian, good Hindu, good Jew, good Muslim, etc. These people have a strong belief in a value system and see themselves as moral people, yet they are neither bitter nor aggressive towards those who do not share their...
...strew mathematics professors and long-division worksheets in the path of my students and millions of others who only in the past decade have been offered a glimpse of math classrooms in which they can honestly perceive themselves as thinkers, as problem-solvers, and as active participants...
...story is in many ways similar to The English Patient. The title's Anil, like Hana in the earlier novel, is someone who chooses her path very carefully-even down to naming herself. She is faced with a country that is no longer hers. By the end of the novel, it is again, and the journey of that transformation is a finely crafted piece of storytelling. The atmosphere of his story is not entirely fiction. The teardrop-shaped island country below India has been ravaged by ethnic conflict for several decades; it has been plunged into war or near...
...fields by a despised army whose only agenda is making its leaders wealthy. I talked to a number of captured rebels, and they had no political ideology; they were simply teenagers who'd been kidnapped, drugged, often forced to kill or rape their loved ones to cut off their path back to rejoining society...
...nightmare for the music industry. Record companies and artists are worried lest websites let consumers download pirated music for free. But while the big music labels have reacted with lawsuits--including one that last week determined music site mp3.com had violated copyright laws--one band is taking a different path. Limp Bizkit has decided to let Napster, whose software has become a college favorite for playing pirated tunes, sponsor a series of free concerts in July. Says band front man Fred Durst: "We could care less about the older generation's need to do business as usual." At least...