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...Palin’s active brand of Christian faith displays internal contradictions as well, the hypocrisies that always dwell with zeal. Asked whether she thinks evolution or creationism should be taught to Alaskan schoolchildren, Palin fell back upon the language of free speech: “Teach both. You know, don’t be afraid of information…Healthy debate is so important, and it’s so valuable in our schools.” Yet, as mayor of Wasilla, Palin hoped to ban certain books from the town library. For Palin, the belief that the Judeo...
...reporter for the Association of Zimbabwe Journalists, and Rory O’Connor, a journalist and president of the media company Globalvision, will also be fellows. In addition to the four fellows, former Washington Post political reporter and editor Maralee Schwartz will serve as a visiting lecturer and teach a class on the 2008 presidential campaign. —Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at ldkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
...option. I'm not trying to cram it down people's throats. Give people an option, a choice, of what they want to do. We teach evolution in school. Why can't we give kids an alternative choice of a Bible curriculum and let them make up their own mind...
...radical idea is to teach novices to fly a modern jet airliner in a little over a year. Unlike the traditional route to the cockpit, this course places limited emphasis on flying real planes; instead it focuses on training in simulators and teamwork. "Each person finds different things difficult," Stanley says of the challenge of handling the switches, knobs and screens in front of him and the responsibility for a hundred lives behind. "For some it will be memory, for others it will be handling skill. I had never driven a car, so motor skills - handling skills - were not very...
Then She Found Me Directed by Helen Hunt; rated R; out now This movie has something to teach all women: Colin Firth is not always going to be there for you. Hunt directs herself in a story of yearning, from a book by Elinor Lipman, but can't quite juggle the funny and the touching, so ends up with neither...