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...original purpose may have been to quiz the great king, but it was the torrid love affair between the wise and powerful Israelite ruler and the mysterious monarch from the south that everyone remembers. Their legendary romance, celebrated in both Bible and Koran, begat epic poetry, Hollywood extravaganzas, musical works by George Frideric Handel and Charles Gounod and, according to Ethiopian tradition, an African dynasty that endured until Haile Selassie was deposed...
Speaking of a "narrow escape" and a "nifty loophole," Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy were able to write of the wisdom of Bush's decision without ever admitting that Bush was wise. (THE REV.) PAUL PORTER, PASTOR Van Meter Baptist Church Van Meter, Iowa...
...measure of the economy?s state going forward - recession-watch-wise - it?s pretty lousy. Unemployment is a classic lagging economic indicator; it tells us a little about happened in the economy in August - employers cut payrolls, mostly in manufacturing - and maybe a little more about what happened in the months before that; namely, that business was lousy and production lines were idle, so a lot of workers were neither useful nor affordable. (In the business world, of course, that?s the same thing.) But the only thing it tells us about September and the months ahead is that manufacturers...
Before the uproar two years ago over Dutch, his quasi-fictional biography of Ronald Reagan, Edmund Morris was the acclaimed author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, a wise and supremely readable account of T.R.'s first 42 years that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. In a move that could restore his reputation among people who found his account of Reagan a hard one to swallow, Morris is ready now with his long-awaited second volume on the 26th President, Theodore Rex. This one is devoted to Teddy's energetic presidency, which ranged from trustbusting at home to peacemaking...
...Wise Young, spinal-cord research. See highlights from a CNN special explaining how stem-cell research might help Christopher Reeve...