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...criticizing that colony's government. He saw his exile not as punishment, but as a sign of God's "many providences." Dissenters would always be welcome here - the city, he said, would be a "lively experiment." It worked. The motto on the city seal is no obscure Latin phrase, but the salutation used by the local Indians to greet Williams: "What cheer?" Visitors[an error occurred while processing this directive] to Providence, an hour's drive southwest of Boston, will find many answers to that question. Think of Providence as an eminently walkable museum - bring good shoes to handle...
...book challenges the claim, made in Bob Woodward's book Plan of Attack, that CIA chief George Tenet told Bush in late 2002 that the case that Saddam had WMD was a "slam-dunk." That phrase has hung like a noose around Tenet ever since and been widely derided as perhaps the most notorious, and erroneous, claim to justify the invasion of Iraq. Tenet, Suskind says, was stunned to read what he had purportedly told the President when he saw an excerpt from the book in the Washington Post in April 2004. While the President wasn't quoted...
...Based on a Japanese phrase for "single numbers," Sudoku is actually an American invention. In 1979 Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games featured a puzzle called Number Place: nine boxes of nine boxes -imagine a big tic-tac-toe board with a tiny tic-tac-toe board in each square. The object is to fill in the numbers 1 through 9, nine times, so that no number is repeated in a horizontal or vertical line, or in any of the small boxes...
...globally, have chafed increasingly about being treated like branch managers rather than ecclesial princes in their own right (or, er, rite) - might vote down the new version and initiate liturgical insurrection. The fact that they've decided to decline some of the changes - such as the substitution of the phrase "consubstantial with the Father" in describing Christ for "one in being with the Father," on the argument that the latter uses more understandable words - suggests that they are not totally rolling over. But, as they have learned the hard way since Vatican II, it may only be a matter...
...economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable” could serve as the epitaph for the presidency of University President Lawrence H. Summers. While his supporters might defend this infamous phrase in the name of “freedom of expression” or excuse it as an unfortunate slip, critics find it typical of a carelessness of expression that mocks both logic and human decency—a carelessness that pursued him into his presidency.There is much public confusion over why Summers resigned, and the speculations are a Rorschach...