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...nameless Islamic extremists from Hizballah, Hamas and their sponsors -- everyone thinks first of Iran as chief sponsor -- who see themselves as the force of the future in the Middle East. While their cause is the same -- derailing the peace process and destroying Israel -- the Islamists do not need a secular professional like Carlos...
James is right that the Hall of Fame, like the Miss America Pageant or the Mount Rushmore sculptures, was essentially a Chamber of Commerce inspiration to lure tourists. But when the Hall opened in 1939, it became a secular shrine, the Lourdes of baseball. It still is. The place evokes a simpler time of grace and grit and innocence, when players didn't seem so greedy or owners so stupid and when both sides apparently realized that the franchise they held was on loan from the fans who had invested so much of themselves in it. This vision is partly...
...defining moment for the made-from-TV movie -- a secular equivalent of Saul struck blind on the road to Damascus -- came one night in the mid-1980s. Producer Permut was channel surfing. "I saw an old rerun of Dragnet," he recalls, "and two stations away, a rerun of Saturday Night Live with Dan Aykroyd." Permut's Dragnet, with Aykroyd and Tom Hanks, became a hit in the summer of 1987 (another moneymaker that season was The Untouchables, with Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness). "Since then," Permut says, "I've been brought just about every TV show imaginable. Last week somebody...
...good night's sleep." I had come thinking Success 1994 would be about dollar signs -- and Ziglar recycled the old line, "Anyone who says he's not interested in money will lie about other things" -- but I was wrong. Success 1994 is essentially a secular religion preached by believing Christians. The recurrent theme: Money has no value without happiness and love...
...pending high-court decision could change the landscape significantly. It revolves around the 1971 Lemon ruling, which bars tax support for salaries and secular textbooks in religious day schools. The decision set up a three-part test to determine whether a government action is an unconstitutional infringement of church-state separation: an action must have a "secular legislative purpose," avoid "excessive government entanglement with religion" and have a "primary effect" that "neither advances nor inhibits religion...