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Slumdog Millionaire: An Oscar for Hope in the Face of Hopelessness
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Vineet Chander is the Coordinator for Hindu LIfe at Princeton University and communicartions director for ISkCON. Even as the world celebrates the eight Oscars that “Slumdog Millionaire” took home tonight – including the coveted Best Picture and props to A.R. Rehman’s infectious soundtrack – in its native Mumbai, the film remains a hotbed of controversy…
Contraception: The Practical Pro-Life Approach
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Paul Raushenbush
William Saletan writes a great article in the New York Times which will either inspire or provoke everyone involved in the current culture wars. His argument is for basic practicality to prevail in approaches to both gay marriage and abortion. Saletan is anti-abortion, and he uses the power of that conviction as his springboard for…
Will the Real Loser Please Stand Up?
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Diana Butler Bass
Yesterday morning CNBC anchor Rick Santelli exploded in a rant on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange against President Obama’s housing proposal. He attacked the “losers” who got suckered into bad mortgages, shouted that the proposal rewarded “bad behavior,” urged the banks and the President to foreclose on those mortgages, and force the myriad…
Avigdor Lieberman: A Threat to Israeli Democracy
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Matthew Weiner is the Program Director at the Interfaith Center of New York. He is writing a book about interfaith and civil society. What does it take to get a secular Israeli Harvard Mathematician who has never engaged in public politics to jump full force into the current election in his country, and create…
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