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...choose now to write your book now and not after you have retired? -Mary Stephens, St. Charles, Mo. Somebody came to me with the idea. I wasn't expecting the idea. A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about...
...Soliciting a former speaker of the House to write about Nancy Pelosi may have seemed like a good idea, but Newt Gingrich's piece smacked of political grandstanding. The depiction of her Syrian trip was bad enough, but ending with tips for Republicans on how to take back the House of Representatives was even worse. The piece was hardly about Pelosi. It was about Gingrich, who is mulling a presidential run and trying to prove how good a political strategist he is. Stephanie Barnard, Oshkosh, Wisconsin...
...Dawkins is a hugely influential geneticist, and I applaud his inclusion in the list. But what on earth was running through your collective minds to lend false legitimacy to the pseudoscientific hack Michael Behe, not only by giving him responsibility for the Dawkins write-up but also by allowing him to plug his own unsupported ideas and latest book? It doesn't exactly do wonders for your perceived level of accuracy of reporting. The scientific community has so much better to offer. I'm disappointed and mildly disgusted. Lynne Batik, Aberdeen, Scotland...
...interfaith experts can profit from the Neusner-Benedict exchange. Rabbi James Rudin, senior interreligious adviser to the American Jewish Committee, says it is in some ways "the full maturation of the modern Catholic-Jewish encounter." But perhaps it may mature further still. Asked what he would like to write next, Neusner says, "I'd like to do a book with the Pope about Paul," whose letter, Romans, contains verses that have long bedeviled Jewish-Christian relations. He is half-joking. But what if the Pope said yes? What new wonder might emerge when two smart men agree to disagree...
...Turner said she decided to pursue the opportunity to write a creative thesis after having taken creative writing classes during her previous semesters at Harvard...