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...Where to Work? Re "Getting to the Top," in your Best Countries for Business package [Nov. 26]: I'm fed up with some intellectuals and political élitists who preach that democracy is secondary to economic prosperity for the developing world. Humans have the same desires and feelings wherever they live, and democracy is God's gift to humanity, even though powermongers have always deprived people of democratic rights. Sustainable development that can benefit all the citizens of a nation, however, can be achieved only through concerted and collective effort by the state and the private sector under the rule...
...good news he brought, has been lost in the rest of the Bible. The effort to reclaim the message constitutes the subject of the latest book by Gomes, a religion professor and the minister of Memorial Church. “It is no accident that although Jesus came preaching a disturbing and redistributive gospel, we do not preach what Jesus preached,” he writes. “Instead, we preach Jesus.”In his latest work, “The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What’s So Good About the Good News...
...Where to Work? Re "Getting to the Top," in your Best Countries for Business package [Nov. 26]: I'm fed up with some intellectuals and political élitists who preach that democracy is secondary to economic prosperity for the developing world. Humans have the same desires and feelings wherever they live, and democracy is God's gift to humanity, even though power mongers have always deprived people of democratic rights. Sustainable development that can benefit all citizens, however, can be achieved only through concerted and collective effort by the state and the private sector. Economic growth and democracy should...
...than global warming. The green-living Begley is the star in the electric car - though he's since switched to a hybrid - and his career is a handy measure of how much environmentalism has saturated Hollywood. Organic to his biodegradable core, Begley says that when he first began to preach the gospel of green, telling his friends and colleagues about his forays into recycling or alternative power, "they thought it seemed kind of crazy," he says. But now Begley and his wife Rachelle star in an environmental reality TV show -Living With Ed, on HGTV - and he can feel...
...invite a broad variety of players in the environmental arena to come speak at the University, according to Daniel P. Schrag, director of HUCE. When asked about the subtle moral message of his book, Weisman replied, “As a journalist I don’t preach, I simply show the facts, and the facts speak for themselves. Life will go on. My concern frankly is for us.” At least one audience member seemed to share Weisman’s concern. “We have hard times ahead of us, and need to come...