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...living on a modestly fixed income with, perhaps, not quite enough useful activity to occupy an intelligent and still active mind. At first glance he appears to be a pretty standard and uninteresting type; you would pass him in the street without giving him a second thought. If you spoke to him, as documentary director Amy Berg lengthily did, you would find him to be rather bland and affectless, not particularly forthcoming about his long and astonishing career...
...anniversary of the publication of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, his landmark book on coping with life's tragedies, Rabbi Harold Kushner's new book, Overcoming Life's Disappointments, returns to a similar theme. Having retired from his day-to-day responsibilities as a pulpit Rabbi, Kushner spoke to TIME's Jeremy Caplan about coping with tragedy, how Moses is misunderstood, and why prayer doesn't work the way some people think it does. TIME: Why did you focus your book around Moses? Kushner: I wanted to give people a more rounded picture of Moses, not simply...
Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister, sounded like a broken record when he spoke at a Hamas rally last week. “I tell you with all honesty,” he said, “we will not recognize Israel, we will not recognize Israel, we will not recognize Israel...
...Franken: God Spoke...
...least some on the Bush team know their current approach in Iraq is not sustainable. Bush mentioned the word "flexible" or "flexibility" several times during Wednesday's press conference and he hinted that he would consider a change in strategy if his generals proposed one. Meanwhile, General George Casey spoke at a Pentagon press conference about the pros and cons of adding more troops to stabilize Baghdad - something the Bush team has resisted for months. And the President seemed to lean rhetorically on the coming recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, led by James Baker and Lee Hamilton...