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...young, blonde, attractive, and intelligent” date, and his final stipulations: “No Black, Asian, overweight, or unattractive women please,” if expressed in conversation or with his name attached, would have marked him for life. Yet the fact that life has driven this alleged senior to the exigency of posting on Craigslist makes his words more amusing than appalling. He is racist, sexist, shallow, and perhaps even height-ist, but now thousands of people know he can’t get a date...
...Some critics, such as Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Convention's Southern Theological Seminary, see the movement as hardwired for scandal. "The Charismatic movement is so driven by emotion and by passion that it sometimes lacks both theological and moral accountability," he says. Others, such as Tim Morgan, an editor at Christianity Today, see it as a more organizational problem - the absence of the kind of internal oversight common in mainline Protestantism and more recently in non-Pentecostal Evangelicalism. "Quite a few of these independent churches feel they are beholden to God alone," says Morgan...
...same time, those voters hold their breath when Obama is asked to comment on something like the Jena 6 case. He walks a fine line, demonstrating that he is connected to the African-American community without appearing to have an agenda driven by that constituency. "Race is not just an issue in the back of the minds of white voters," says longtime Democratic activist Donna Brazile, an African American who was Al Gore's 2000 campaign manager. "It really is a concern with black voters. They're worried about whether the country is ready for a black President. They...
...center of the Croatian boom is Istria, a Mediterranean peninsula that was spared the fighting. The local government anticipates 22 courses by 2012, and the region has attracted interest from major names in design, including Jack Nicklaus and Robert Trent Jones Jr. Largely driven by growth in Istria and buzz around Croatia's imminent accession to the E.U., the World Travel and Tourism Council last year listed Croatia as the world's fastest growing tourist destination, a mantle to which the government responded by swiftly laying out 50 potential golf sites in a nation of 4.5 million...
...becoming a lot less interesting,” says Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society James L. Watson, who teaches a course on “Food and Culture” and has lived near the Square since 1988. Watson believes that diners’ escalating expectations have driven up prices, shutting out many students and local residents. “I think it’s moved upscale a lot…it’s become a very yuppie kind of expensive place,” he says.Pebble Gifford, of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, also recognizes the Square?...