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...Templeton was actually pressing Graham to modernize his ministry, make it more commercially viable. What could be more tempting - to a rising preacher trying to reach young people, a preacher who stressed being approachable and relevant - than to tailor his theology to the tastes of the times, especially if the latest scholarship allowed wider appeal? But for Graham this was not an option. He felt that he could either believe the Bible or leave the ministry. "It was not too late to be a dairy farmer," he concluded...
...student’s place in line.” CS 50’s venture is largely experimental. The course will continue to host traditional office hours. Course veteran Andrew K. Chan ’09 said that while virtual office hours will allow teaching fellows to reach more students, any resulting loss of personal interaction could make the class more challenging. “I remember from freshman year when I took CS 50 that...the personalized attention was crucial for me to get through some of the tougher problem sets,” he said. Alexandre...
...almost all of those respects, Clinton's plan is similar to those put forward earlier by her two chief rivals for the Democratic nomination, John Edwards and Barack Obama. (One difference: Obama's proposal does not include an individual mandate, and therefore, does not reach true universal coverage). The leading Democratic contenders also include provisions that would allow people to buy into a government-run plan, similar to Medicare, which would amount to a test of both the support and feasibility of a "single-payer" system similar to Canadian and European systems...
...hopes to emigrate. "No country needs a sugar-cane cutter," Connew says, but other countries might want the cane cutter's accountant daughter or engineer son. Even in the holidays, Dharmen expects his sons to toil at maths and English; once they leave Fiji, Connew writes, they will "reach back to extract their parents...
...convinced that those concerns are real. "If you believe the media, this country is in a state of permanent civil war," says Dave Sinardet, a political scientist at the University of Antwerp. "This is more a crisis of government than of the country. I expect the parties to reach some sort of solution soon - as they have done in the past - and when everyone calms down, we should see all this talk about splits and independence evaporate...