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...second day of his presidency, Barack Obama wanted to send a clear message: The United States does not torture. An executive order signed by Obama now requires that interrogations of anyone in U.S. custody follow what's known as the Army Field Manual. The 384-page book lays out 19 interrogation techniques permitted by law and prohibits nine categories of others, including waterboarding, used by the Central Intelligence Agency during the Bush Administration, as well as forcing prisoners to be naked, as happened in the Abu Ghraib prisoner scandal. The Army Field Manual itself is specific; it includes precise instructions...
...latest book, Great Awakening: 7 Ways to Change the World, Wallis lays out the challenges facing the new president, and explains how people of faith and their secular allies can come together to find solutions. In a new introduction written after the presidential election, he appeals to fellow "misfits," those who "are not satisfied with shallow answers or the easy faith of our time or the partisan reductions of faith to ideology and culture wars." Wallis talked to TIME about Rick Warren, the ongoing culture wars, and praying for the Obamas. (See the 25 most influential Evangelicals in America...
...religious shift was certainly revealed in the 2008 election. The Religious Right isn't gone, but their influence and role is declining. It's apparent in their efforts to figure out where they're headed. And the possibility the book talked about looks much more possible now. I predicted a wider, deeper agenda, and it's happening now. When the National Association of Evangelicals fired Rich Cizik [who said he had shifted his views to support the idea of civil unions], they fired their future. The shift wasn't caused by the election, but it was revealed in the election...
Bring a Friend. To celebrate Barack Obama's Inauguration, Ethiopian Airlines is offering a free companion ticket to any of its 32 destinations in Africa, including Nairobi, Cairo and Johannesburg, from Washington's Dulles Airport. Book Feb. 1 through March 30. 800-445-2733 (See 10 things to do in Washington...
Burns wrote in Scots, a dialect that looks familiar but confusing to modern English speakers (he penned "Auld Lang Syne," which most of us can pronounce but not interpret). In 1786, he published his first book of poems, on everything from religious hypocrisy to a typical Scottish Saturday night. The poems were catchy, sarcastic and light; the book was an instant success. Like a struggling actor who lands a part on a major sitcom, the fame came hard and fast - everybody in Scotland suddenly knew...