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...Those attending the event were moved by his obvious emotion at the former death camp. But his address that day was marked by some highly peculiar ellipses. He failed to mention anti-Semitism, instead contending that "ultimately" the Nazis' motive in killing Jews was to "tear up the taproot of the Christian faith." And although he claimed to speak as a "son of the German people," Benedict seemed to downplay any ordinary-German implication in the Holocaust. Instead, he placed blame on a "ring of criminals [who] rose to power by false promises ... through terror ... with the result that...
...attention on their homes. Any whiff of news about the U.K.'s housing market is enough to make the front pages. When British TV channels aren't airing advice on buying or selling homes, they're offering lessons on how to do them up. "Domesticity," Emerson noted, "is the taproot which enables the nation to branch wide and high...
...power had to belong to man alone - to those men, who thought that by force they had made themselves masters of the world.? He concluded the point by returning to the specific question of Christianity: ?By destroying Israel, they ultimately wanted to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith and to replace it with a faith of their own invention: faith in the rule of man, the rule of the powerful,? he said. Benedict went on to say that the remains of cruelty on display at the extermination camps ?don?t instill hatred in us; instead they show...
...Taproot tailors the volunteer efforts of its business experts to fit their lives. Each volunteer agrees to work five hours a week on a five-month project with a five-member team, each providing pro bono the same service that he provides for paying clients. Taproot member Candice Laxton, 54, a creative director in Menlo Park, Calif., helped produce a brochure for SAVE (Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments), an advocacy group for abused women. Laxton is typical of many boomers who, in earlier years, put some of their youthful activism on hold while establishing careers and families...
...ventures run the gamut from medical clinics staffed by retired doctors and nurses to legal clinics for disadvantaged children. New activities like these are attracting more men to volunteerism, which has historically been dominated by women. At Taproot, men make up 38% of the membership. The gender revolution--in which more women have gone to work--has reduced the traditional pool of female volunteers even as expertise-based assignments are drawing in more men. "Because we are now in a knowledge economy," Steinhorn says, "knowledge is what both women and men can contribute...