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...financial companies and their allowing the deficit to balloon to $10 trillion. In the end, all Gingrich can offer as an answer is Contract with America 2.0--which consists mostly of tax cuts. It's the old trickle-down economics with a fresh paint job. I'd much rather have tax-and-spend Democrats than borrow-and-spend Republicans. David Ingram, ST. LOUIS...
...Rather than demanding that people protect the environment by introducing it through education programs, environmentalists have the opportunity to motivate people to protect it for the same reason that the environmentalists do: because they have an understanding of, and legitimate concern for, it. While it may be easier to tell people not to do something, making them not want to do it is a more effective means of protection...
...Harvard has always been intertwined with Protestantism, Harvard was not founded simply as a Puritan seminary. From the beginning, Harvard had no institutional affiliation with a denomination. The installation of lawyer John Leverett as university president in 1708 was a testament to Harvard’s secular—rather than religious—roots...
...Harvard attempted to institutionalize religious diversity in 1974, when the Stendahl Committee recommended that a troika consisting of a Protestant minister, Roman Catholic priest, and Jewish rabbi replace the single minister of Memorial Church. President Bok rejected the proposal, claiming that it limited, rather than broadened, the university’s religious functions. He also changed “Preacher to the University” to “Minister in Memorial Church” to better contextualize the Protestant chaplaincy within the broader Harvard community...
...writing, “ok for u I wnt buy it.” (PETA would be proud, Shaq!) For whatever reason, I started counting myself as Shaq’s unofficial 544,644th follower, although given my Twitter-less status, I suppose I was engaging in furtive eavesdropping rather than a conversation with him. Sometimes, I wish that my online friendship with Shaq were not so unbalanced. When Shaq wrote that he was “watchin the maury povich show, I’m not the father, schwwwwww,” my self-imposed silence was frustrating. Shaq...