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...Bush Challenge: To come up with ways of combating the Bin Laden threat that project toughness without succumbing to the temptation to grandstand. More important, to recognize that Bin Laden's influence is growing in an Arab political context where hostility to the U.S. is widespread, and to begin to address that political problem. The way to beat Bin Laden is to isolate him, which requires active support in the Arab world...
...Rhodes, 44 of whom have been fortunate enough to win. In this same decade, U.S. state committees have considered over 10,000 candidates from 350 colleges and universities. That one school's students should fare so well, and do so consistently over time, is truly remarkable in this context...
...racially and ethnically diverse student body produces significant education benefits such that diversity, in the context of higher education, constitutes a compelling governmental interest," Druggan wrote in his decision...
...rare that one encounters such grand generalities as, "He was surprised at how miserable he felt. Far removed from Christian notions of grace and redemption, unfamiliar with the concepts of freedom and compassion, Michel's worldview had grown pitiless and mechanical." Such a statement flounders in the context of a work of fiction, and unfortunately is not redeemed by any breathtaking originality...
Still, Elizondo struggled with the church's paternal attitude toward Mexican Americans and vowed to go beyond simply elevating cultural traditions in church services. He wanted to develop a theology within the context of the living faith of his childhood neighbors, a faith that spoke of the mestizo experience--the mixture of Spanish and Indian blood common to people born of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Why, he pondered, was there such emphasis in the Gospels on Jesus' origins in Galilee, a land little mentioned in the Old Testament? It came to him that Jesus was essentially a mestizo, raised...