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...taken on TV and in blogs. "It's what sociologists call a mobilization of bias," he says. "Certain questions cannot even be asked, and certain answers are not conceivable." Personally, I find the book too dependent on stretched scholarship and conjecture to make its title case. Yet if my vision is clouded, I don't think it's by MOB. More like OTMSBBS: one-too-many-speculative-Bible-books syndrome...
...that these academics came of age during the translation of the Nag Hammadi "library" and the Dead Sea Scrolls, troves that opened a window to unorthodox faith during and after Jesus' life that the Bible and church fathers only hinted at or condemned. The authors can now transmit that vision to a Da Vinci--primed public. Says HSF editorial director Michael Maudlin: "Maybe we have enough evidence to say that our understanding of what happened back then was too simple. Dan Brown didn't invent it, but he made it sexy." Says Tauber: "I think it's wonderful...
...obvious," Snyder says, "and that's a thing that maybe doesn't even exist in real life. Maybe when it happened it wasn't even that clear. That's why it's a piece of mythology. It's what we would hope for." 300 is a vision of war as ennobling and morally unambiguous and spectacularly good-looking. That's one hell of a special effect...
...junta, called the Council for National Security (CNS), now runs the country. The CNS ousted elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra last Sept. 19. At first, the overthrow of the billionaire P.M. was greeted with much public acclaim. Today, however, the CNS is increasingly under fire for a lack of vision and high-profile policy missteps. Although the junta promised to restore stability to Thailand after months of anti-Thaksin street protests, bombs erupted in the capital on New Year's Eve, and violence in the country's largely Muslim south has escalated. The CNS-appointed government spooked investors by briefly...
...What it did was articulate a vision of America—that is was once united and is now deeply dis-united—that seems to me to have been mistaken but profoundly important,” Jennifer L. Hochschild, Jayne Professor of Government, said today...