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...direct communion with God. The Renaissance Catholic heaven more resembled an ongoing human-to-human celebration presided over by the Virgin Mary. But Protestant reformers of the 1500s reinstated a vision severely centered on Christ and his Last Judgment. This became the dominant understanding in America from its Puritan period through its first century, despite some founding fathers' attraction to the ideas of the Enlightenment...
...Price Club embodies much that is unique about the United States: the search for value that represents our inherited Puritan ethic coupled with the perennial desire to rise to the top and live the best life that we can. Translated into late twentieth century talk, that means buying fancy stuff on sale. Enter Price Club. In the cavernous, cement-floored Club, one can find all manner of goods known to humanity. Here, one buys in bulk; you can't get a box of tissues, but you can get 12 tissue boxes for the price of 8. If you have...
...theory, half of all funds should beat it while half fall short. In reality, in the past 10 years only 20% of diversified, actively managed U.S. stock funds have done better. Laggards include big names such as Income Fund of America, with assets of $16 billion, and Fidelity Puritan, with assets of $19 billion...
...this experience hardly makes me a neo-Puritan supporter of the continuing war against marijuana users. It's despicable to criminalize and imprison thousands for marijuana possession, while the liquor and tobacco lobbies are destroying so many lives with advertising and campaign contributions. I told my kids that marijuana in moderation for medicinal, ceremonial and recreational use is defensible, especially in comparison with alcohol and tobacco. I also warned them that marijuana has never improved anyone's ability to do homework or hit a curve ball. It infuriates me that my kids, like millions of their generation, are defined...
...live today. The first, called "Small World Order," is written by Douglas B. Rand '98 with music by Adam J. Levitin '98. The place is Disneyworld. The ride is a version of company history, only the company has overwhelmed the country. New England, for example, is fondly known as "Puritan Land" and Texas goes by "Lone Star Land." The world is high on the opiate of Celebration, and perception is sugar-coated and mouse-eared. Information is doled out by such outrageous characters as a Mary Lou Retton (Kate E. DeLima '97) who cartwheels cross stage and an Albert Einstein...