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...committed the only sin that really counts in the movie business: you made a flop with Showgirls. You've had to go back to Holland to reestablish yourself. Do you feel embittered by that response...
...crowd, Greenspan's decision to slash interest rates as the stock market plummeted in 2001, which fueled the last leg of the real estate boom, is seen as his gravest error. Despite his raising rates since then, Greenspan's successor Ben Bernanke is if anything even more reviled. His sin was committed in 2002 when, as a member of the Federal Reserve Board but not yet its chairman, he declared that among the tools the Fed had at its disposal to fend off deflation was one that he termed equivalent to a "helicopter drop of money...
...Kasparov and some other dissidents, the original sin of the new Russia was the 1996 presidential election, in which--with the help of massive injections of funds from business oligarchs--Boris Yeltsin won re-election over Gennady Zyuganov, the Communists' leader. Kasparov now says that he and other liberals made a "horrible mistake when we endorsed Yeltsin and looked the other way out of fear for a communist comeback. We missed the whole point that democracy is not about results. Democracy is about upholding regulations and having a legitimate transfer of power...
...often bitter debate over what causes homosexuality took an unexpected turn this week in the wake of comments by a leading conservative Christian theologian, who says fellow evangelicals should accept that science may one day prove homosexuals are born gay. "We sin against homosexuals by insisting that sexual temptation and attraction are predominately chosen," wrote the Rev. Albert Mohler, the influential president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Mohler's position is a startling departure from years of insistence among fundamentalists that gay rights advocates are wrong when they say homosexuality is not something they choose...
...there is a striking change in the 2008 Republican presidential field. There are two candidates with strong religious credentials, Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, and both spend far more time talking about good works than about sin, although each has the requisite positions on abortion and gay marriage. Indeed, it was Huckabee who reminded me of Chesterton's lament. "I'm a 'grace' Christian," Huckabee told me over lunch recently, "not a 'law' Christian. The Second Commandment--do unto others--is the basic tenet of my faith. And so I believe that life...