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...House Without a Christmas Tree is a special that somehow got lost in the mass-remarketing of old Christmas fare. Like The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (the 1971 special that spawned the series The Waltons), it's a lovingly but realistically told story that touches the emotional essence of Christmas without indulging in its kitschy excess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Christmas Classic That Could | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...faithful and non-believers. "That way," among other things, he says, "you can ask, 'Do believers believe that Jesus was born of a virgin the same way that nonbelievers believe that Chevrolet makes cars and trucks?'" It may turn out that the brain treats religious faith as its own special category of belief unlike ethics and math...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Brain Looks Like on Faith | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...Because We Crave Justice. In much of our world today, everyone is special, every contribution is valuable, and every child gets a trophy just for playing. Not in Listworld. In Listworld, there are values. Things are good enough or they are not, and someone has made a damned decision about it. In Listworld, every day is Judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of 10 | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...biggest problem with the debates is that there are too many. Every interest group under the sun, must, of course, have a special themed debate in their honor, and if the candidates don’t attend the media depicts their absence as apathy. In September, for example, PBS personality Tavis Smiley hosted a debate on minority issues, which the top tier candidates, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, Arizona Sen. John McCain, and Thompson, skipped. “Top Republicans scolded for skipping black debate,” and “Smiley...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: Enough Already! | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...frustration.” It was not a good night for Harvard to incur so many infractions, as its penalty kill unit was not as sharp as it had been in recent play. Taking advantage of their many power-play opportunities, the Eagles doubled the Crimson’s special-teams output, going 4-for-9 with an extra man. “It wasn’t about BC, it was about us,” MacDonald said. “If anything, it was [that] we strayed from our game plan. We’re usually pretty tight...

Author: By Daniel J. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Eagles get revenge on Crimson, Richter | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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