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...title of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, “Humanae Vitae.” Yet what should be a point of humility for this amateur scholar of comparative religion inexplicably gives him license to teach not only Pope Paul and the Boston College theologian whose recent lecture he mentions, but also St. Paul and St. Augustine a thing or two about the proper moral attitude toward sex. Mr. Don is certainly entitled to his opinion, however uninformed and offensive it is to Catholics. But what should be impermissible—especially in a newspaper as intellectually rigorous...
...speakers referenced a recent New York Times column written by Nicholas D. Kristof ’81-’82, who argues that the evangelicals have come to the forefront of current social justice issues...
...rage toward corrupt bankers seems to course through his body - even when he's on vacation. He recalls a recent trip he took with his daughter to Utah to go skiing (something he often does nowadays). After a day on the slopes, he found himself drinking Scotch and talking to some "Wall Street guys" at the bar: "I looked them in the eye and said, 'You guys aren't worth it. Capital is overcompensated these days. It's un-American, and it's unjust.'" Spitzer thinks it's an outrage that the same bankers who brought down the world economy...
...favorite moment in Barack Obama's recent health care summit came when Senate majority leader Harry Reid surgically exposed the emptiness of a key Republican debating point, using the classic political tactic of jujitsu: he allowed the force of the opposition's argument to carry it into the abyss. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, an obstetrician, had delivered a passionate - and seemingly well-informed - statement about the need for medical-malpractice reform. "O.K., Senator, you win," Reid responded. "Look, we Democrats don't see malpractice the same way you do. Our traditional supporters among the trial lawyers hate...
Just 30 years ago, White House press aides could work with only a handful of reporters and producers to get their story before 50 million network-news viewers every night and all over the papers the next morning. By contrast, Obama's most recent prime-time news conference, which was carried live July 22 on cable news, NBC, CBS and ABC, reached a combined audience of 24.7 million, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist at Towson University who studies presidential communications. To compensate, Obama's message advisers spent the first year keeping their boss on as many outlets...