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...needed to do," she says. Still, when she first opened her salon in 2000, she shied from identifying the business as Christian. "It's risky because we're a small community," she says. "You might turn people off if they think, At that salon, they're going to preach Jesus to me." In recent years, as her clientele solidified and evangelical Christians gained prominence nationwide, she grew bolder. She had Scripture stenciled on the walls and named the adjoining café Java Garden (as in Garden of Eden). The salon plays Christian rock, displays Christian magazines and forbids cursing or gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Praying For Profits | 8/9/2005 | See Source »

...risen to meet their responsibilities. The young man in your article said he feels much closer to his jihadist brothers than to his family. Shame on the Muslim community for not taking responsibility for its children, for not doing whatever it takes to protect them from those who preach hatred and violence. Don Cooper Timisoara, Romania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 8/6/2005 | See Source »

...world opinion on any issue. Whether it is environmental concerns or human rights, America wipes its feet on the rest of the world. Clear violations of all norms and conventions, holding people without judicial process?you name it, the U.S. has done it. What right do Americans have to preach liberty and freedom to the rest of the world? Ramji Abinashi Amersham, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

...world opinion on any issue. Whether it is environmental concerns or human rights, America wipes its feet on the rest of the world. Clear violations of all norms and conventions, holding people without judicial process - you name it, the U.S. has done it. What right do Americans have to preach liberty and freedom to the rest of the world? Ramji Abinashi Amersham, England The story on the interrogation log of Detainee 063 was one of the most sickening reports that I have ever read. While I give a thumbs-up to the authors, I give a thumbs-down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

Perhaps so, but the no-money-down concept has created an industry in which it is often more profitable to preach real estate investing than to practice it. The pioneers were Robert G. Allen, 37, and Albert Lowry, 58, who wrote rival best-selling books on the subject during the 1970s and early 1980s. An updated edition of Allen's Nothing Down zoomed back onto the best-seller lists last year. Offering dozens of financing tactics, Allen and Lowry were soon so much in demand that they formed companies and hired dozens of disciples to go out and preach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Preachers of Easy Pickings | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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