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Rabbi Harold Kushner has written that the greatness of the Job story lies in its focus on three propositions that can't be simultaneously true: 1) God is all-powerful; 2) God is just; 3) Job, whom God lets suffer, is a good person. But the debate in Job actually concludes on a fourth assertion, stated by the Lord from out of the whirlwind, that Job has no business questioning Him. ("Where were you when I planned the earth? Do you show the hawk how to fly?") Some believers are frustrated by this pulling of rank, but the Sunday group...
Nancy's idea of what's going on is a bit more personalized. "If God would ask me to suffer this significantly, I think He has something significant He wants to do with it through me, if only just in my heart," she says. Her concept of evil is less abstract than David's. The Bible is replete with instances in which "Jesus may not be the author of evil, but He permitted it [for reasons of His own]," she notes. She recalls His telling Peter after the Last Supper that Satan has asked "to sift you like wheat...
...Edward Hopper and his fellow Californian, the late great Richard Diebenkorn; among Europeans, the names Giorgio Morandi, Chardin and Manet are among the first to pop up. But he is also one of those painters who, happily, feel entitled to pick and quote wherever they choose: he does not suffer from the snobbery of influence. "The sublime of Orange Crate art," critic Adam Gopnik writes in his catalog introduction, and one knows just what he means. Thiebaud is one of the few American artists whose ambitions have no Puritan or didactic dimension--he wants to give pleasure...
Those are some mighty big ifs, of course. After all, the man was on the verge of dying before last week's operation--and still could die at any moment. His liver and kidneys are in pretty bad shape. He could suffer any number of surgical complications, from internal bleeding to infection to strokes...
...business book getting lots of attention examines the subject of...attention. "Understanding and managing attention is now the single most important determinant of business success," declare Thomas Davenport and John Beck, authors of The Attention Economy, just published by the Harvard Business Press. Organizations, they say, can suffer from "organizational ADD," an increased likelihood of missing key information when making decisions and a decreased ability to focus. By attention the authors mean both the ability to pay attention and the ability to attract it. While readers of Susan Sontag (Illness as Metaphor) will wince at the gimmicky ADD slogan...