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However, the reality of the relationship between church and state is significantly more complicated. As Tocqueville understood when he visited America more than a century and a half ago, in America, religion is "the first political institution." As Robert Putnam, Sidney Verba and others have found, even in our more modern times, those who attend religious services and are involved in church activities vote and engage in direct political activity more often than do those who are not institutionally involved in religious life...
...smoker for the last eight months, I grew used to hearing my habit reviled as "filthy." Even worse, while I walked across the Yard, some of my fellow students would feign coughs near me. Since the dangers of second-hand smoke don't extend to wide open spaces, I understood that they were simply passing judgment on me, a walking carcinogen. At least during Lent, I wouldn't be a pariah...
Luce and Hadden, classmates out of Hotchkiss and Yale, succeeded because they understood this truth: history may be complicated, as life is complicated, but the business of storytelling is simple. The young men said in their prospectus that their creation would be judged by "how much it gets off its pages into the minds of its readers." Sort the world into stories and carry them (facts, personalities, ideas, images, dramas, quirks, gossip, the details and energy of life) from Out There, where things happen, to In Here, inside the reader's consciousness, where stories turn into wonder, entertainment, cautionary experience...
...children and I have always understood the significance of my husband's work and would have preferred to ignore Mr. Hoover's ungentlemanly attacks on my husband, but my husband is dead and cannot reply for himself. Moreover, his memory is too precious to us and to tens of millions of Americans, black and white, to permit unfounded slurs to remain unanswered. J. Edgar Hoover, in alleging that he called my husband a liar during their meeting in 1964, has exposed himself. There were witnesses present, three distinguished clergymen, who explicitly denied that Mr. Hoover made such a statement...
Bhatia calls the BJP's role in the Ayodhya mosque incident a "symbolic repudiation of syncretistic Indian history." One cannot judge 5,000 years of Hindu history by one exception, and this complex event must be understood in context...