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...engage with North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Cuba, but they uniformly agree that the United States should neither reach out to Hamas—considered a terrorist organization by the U.S., Israel, and the European Union—nor pressure Israel to do so. Yet in spite of such unanimity, prominent Americans, including former President Jimmy Carter and former National Security Advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, have continued to press Israel to end its boycott of Hamas, as if the lack of peace in the region is the result of an Israeli allergy to peaceful negotiations. This...
Whenever someone asks me why I'm still a Roman Catholic in spite of the pedophile scandals and the retro dogma, I usually reach for Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron and its story about a Catholic trying to convert a non-Catholic friend. The friend insists on visiting Rome so he can observe the Holy See himself. This being the 14th century, when church leaders were about as saintly as Enron executives, the Catholic fears that his pal will return home appalled. And so he does - but he declares he's ready to become a Catholic anyway. The reason: he figures...
...which we elect our leaders. Catholics do not elect the priests who will become bishops or bishops who become Cardinals or Cardinals who become Popes. Even if I live as long as my mother, who was over 100 years old when she died, I doubt the Catholic Church, in spite of the priest shortage, will ever have women as priests or as Pope. Nancy Cox, MAPLETON DEPOT...
...spite of it all--long lines, delays and indignities--Americans still travel. Even with a recession, demand in the U.S. is expected to grow 5% a year. Worldwide tourist visits are expected to double, to 1.6 billion, by 2020. It's one of the great missed business opportunities in recent memory: there are more flights connecting the U.S. to the rest of the world than ever, but U.S. airlines are flying fewer of them. "America led the world in aviation, and they should still be No. 1," says Steve Ridgway, CEO of Virgin Atlantic. "America built the planes that made...
...failed,” Moses said. “In spite of all of it, there are still persons of color who don’t feel like they own the place, women who feel alienated, and people who feel they have to compromise themselves too much to be a part of Harvard...