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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind, a place where ideas about God and religion can resonate, where faith can be shaped and defined by a collective spirit. Such a faith relies not on great external forces to change the world, but on what ordinary people, working as one, can create on this World Wide Web that binds all of us, Christian and Jew, Muslim and Buddhist, together. Interconnected, we may begin to find God in places we never imagined...
...cost of spreading the word down near zero, could carry this atomizing trend to unplumbed depths. Of course it may not, but already it has taken the first step: empowering legions of obscure but enterprising people who harbor ambitions of spiritual leadership. Out on the fringe of the World Wide Web, beyond mainstream religion, storefront preachers and offbeat theologies are springing up like mushrooms. Here--as in many realms of culture and politics these days--the forces of fragmentation compete with the forces of integration...
...will lead to calls for other relationships to be recognized, because if feelings are the key to recognizing a marriage, there's no logical reason why three or four people who say 'We sincerely love each other' should be denied this status," he explains. Gay-rights groups also expect wide repercussions, though of a very different kind. "This decision was an extraordinary turning point," declares Evan Wolfson, an attorney at the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund who served as co-counsel for the three couples, "because we now have in the cool, clear light of a courtroom a judge...
...drafts a manifesto--"The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business"--distributes it to his colleagues, receives a round of hypocritical applause and then gets fired. Thus is Jerry Maguire the film set in motion. Maguire leaves S.M.I. with one client, an undervalued wide receiver named Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), and an accountant named Dorothy Boyd (the gently winsome Renee Zellweger...
...Education) program needs clarification [EDUCATION, Nov. 11]. You might have led your readers to think that d.a.r.e programs receive 100% of the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act funds. However, community D.A.R.E. programs, which number approximately 10,000, are managed at the local level by communities that use a wide variety of funding methods. Also, you failed to include any reference to the many favorable D.A.R.E. evaluations and surveys that exist. And finally, your article said I met with Gilbert Botvin, the author and evaluator of the Life Skills Training antidrug program. In fact, no such meeting took place. GLENN...