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...Nobody is safe in Zimbabwe. There is no security, no rule of law. I am praying for my country." NELSON CHAMISA Zimbabwean opposition spokesman and M.P., after he was attacked and severely beaten by eight men alleged to be members of President Robert Mugabe's government intelligence agency
HOPE IS A CLUSTER BOMB IN wartime, shredding peace of mind. An Iraqi mother hopes her children will be safe--but then she learns that bombers are placing children visibly in the backseat, as unwitting little decoys, so the car can clear the checkpoints before the driver blows it up, with the children still inside. A resident of Baghdad sees the markets reopen and hopes that a flood of fresh troops will bring a season of calm--but U.S. generals warn of a "squirting effect" that shifts the battle to the less guarded cities, so the blood just flows faster...
...some, this idea seems retrograde. Citing a series of Supreme Court decisions culminating in 1963's Abington Township School District v. Schempp, which removed prayer and devotion from the classroom, the skeptics ask whether it is safe to bring back the source of all that sectarianism. But a new, post-Schempp coalition insists it is essential to do so. It argues that teaching the Bible in schools--as an object of study, not God's received word--is eminently constitutional. The Bible so pervades Western culture, it says, that it's hard to call anyone educated who hasn...
...faith one way or another. "I think the academic study of religion provides a kind of middle space between those two ways of talking. It takes the biblical truth claims seriously and yet brackets them for purposes of classroom discussion," he says. "It works in a way that feels safe to both the believer and the unbeliever in the room." And people are "tired of the culture wars," he insists. "There's a broad middle who want to do something productive...
...collected endorsements from so broad a base of advocates (the American Jewish Committee, the Council on Islamic Education, the National Association of Evangelicals and the liberal watchdog group People for the American Way, to name a few) that even the most nervous school board could find what he calls "safe harbor" for a course teaching about the Bible...