Word: representationalism
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While the 99 represent Allah's myriad attributes - everything from wisdom to faithfulness - there is no overt mention of religion in the stories. "When you read through the books, there is no mention of Islam, Allah or the Koran," says Mutawa. "I used an Islamic archetype, but the actual stories...
I always say to new members coming in: Follow the C's. We uphold the Constitution, we represent our constituents, and votes can be a matter of conscience. You have to weigh all of that.
And then, on July 28, Barack Obama held an economic summit with his covey of advisers - people like Bob Rubin, Larry Summers, Warren Buffett, Bob Reich; experts who seemed a sedimentary layer more recent than McCain's crowd but still more a part of the past than of the future...
Beyond the official maneuvering in the wake of the referendum, however, there's a bigger story. The E.U. is one of the great successes of the post-1945 world - a unique geopolitical experiment that has spread peace and prosperity across a continent that, within living memory, had little of either...
Eugene Fidell, a Washington attorney and president of the independent National Institute of Military Justice, says the decision could represent some military-justice muscle-flexing. "The lawyers who make up the military-justice community have felt dissed as a group and are feeling, perhaps, emboldened as a group," he says...