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...fate you can dream up. The Greeks imagined a king who killed his father and married his mother, and Shakespeare could hardly write a tragedy without a regicide angle. It's also been a running storyline on 24. Opera, melodrama, horror movies - all create worst-case scenarios, whose extremes teach home truths. Susan Sontag called science fiction "the imagination of disaster." The same goes for a genre that seeks the most lurid explanation for historical events. Call it poli...
...planned to get a Ph.D. in a field that would let her study and teach about Latin America, and the next step she had planned was a master’s degree at the London School of Economics, starting this fall,” wrote Joseph Badaracco, who is also Shad Professor of Business Ethics...
...everything that glitters is gold, and as any respectable Yard tour will teach you, the model for the famed statue—that you should never, ever kiss—wasn’t even John Harvard. Yet your virginity shall not be lost in vain. Harvard remains that place you dreamed of, that one you fought tirelessly to gain admission to. Savor it without becoming jaded by its privileges...
...real history, and you may want to John Wilkes Booth one or both of them. But nearly all curators will agree that they are battling a common enemy: public indifference. If you're in the history business, you're competing for shrinking wallets and tighter leisure time. Schools teach less history, so kids have less of an idea about what happened at your venue or why it matters. And those same kids have perhaps more veto power over vacation plans and weekend outings than ever before. Worse yet, there's probably a theme park right down the road with...
...booming. Of the four biggest megachurches in the country, three--Osteen's Lakewood in Houston; T.D. Jakes' Potter's House in south Dallas; and Creflo Dollar's World Changers near Atlanta--are Prosperity or Prosperity Lite pulpits (although Jakes' ministry has many more facets). While they don't exclusively teach that God's riches want to be in believers' wallets, it is a key part of their doctrine. And propelled by Osteen's 4 million--selling book, Your Best Life Now, the belief has swept beyond its Pentecostal base into more buttoned-down evangelical churches, and even into congregations...