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...majors, but regular guys seeing how a book could fit in with their lives. Here was that emotional connection that the Wal-Mart Bible had promised!We talked about “American Idol,” and how cultural figures and the lure of success have come to supplant spirituality and morality. Maybe the New Testement wasn’t so terrible after all. Some interpretations of the Bible have been a source of agony for some groups, like for Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, or for gay people seeking equal rights in today’s America. However...
...September, officials from over 150 countries met at a U.N. conference on climate change and the international response to global warming. Many saw this conference as testing ground for ideas likely to be presented in a separate December conference in Bali, which will address what legislation should supplant the Kyoto Protocol upon its 2013 expiration. At September’s conference, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s presentation veered noticably away from the idea of emissions caps, focusing almost exclusively on the potential of improved “energy technologies.” Paired with President Bush?...
...says that “agribusiness” has been building a greater presence in the organic foods market recently, but dismissed the idea that natural food chains such as Whole Foods could supplant the authenticity of the CSA farm or its emphasis on sustainability...
...news is that rather than strengthening Pakistan's progressive middle class (the people we'd like to eventually supplant him) he has strengthened its Islamist radicals (the people we pray never do). Pakistani generals have a tradition of promoting jihadist militants, to use either as a club against regional enemies like India or as an excuse for retaining power. And Musharraf is no exception. In 2002, he manipulated parliamentary elections to hand Islamists control of two Pakistani provinces that border Afghanistan. By undermining Pakistan's large, relatively secular parties, he has left mosques and madrasahs as the most potent vehicles...
...signals of anti-Sunni intransigence. It has supported the "voluntary" relocation of Sunni Arabs from the disputed, Kurdish-dominated city of Kirkuk. And in an instance that is particularly vexing to U.S. intelligence officials, al-Maliki has supported the creation of a parallel Shi'ite-dominated intelligence service to supplant the authority of the Iraq Intelligence Service, which has been run by a Sunni general named Mahmoud Shahwani, who is considered "very effective" by U.S. officials. It is beginning to seem quite implausible that the various Iraqi political factions will meet "benchmarks" like rescinding the punitive de-Baathification programs...