Fat finger trade. There’s an annoying phrase. When the markets plummeted on election day, and City types briefly reckoned it was due to some sort of basic human error, is it not deeply psychologically revealing that they all felt the need, immediately, to resort to jargon?
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Know nothing? Go work in the City
Several former members of Yogi Bhajan’s organization say they aren’t surprised by events unfolding now, six years after his death. Legal disputes threaten to splinter the community. Allegations of the yogi’s past wrongdoing are resurfacing
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Yogi Bhajan’s legacy in question
When I think about great magazine features about religion news in the age of GetReligion, some of the first stories that leap into my mind are headlines like “ The Jesus War ,” which probed the roots of Mel Gibson’s “Passion” play on film, and “ Jesus in the Classroom ,” which offers an unusually balanced and nuanced account of the battles over religion and American history in the elite public-school classrooms of Cupertino, Calif. Alas, the highly skilled Peter J.
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Let’s play, ‘Edit The New Yorker’!
The New York Times ran a huge page one feature on Anwar al-Awlaki. He’s the American-born Muslim cleric now active with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. He had ties to several of the 9/11 terrorists but his work with Fort Hood shooter and the Northwest Flight 253 underwear bomber have gotten renewed attention from the American government
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Trusting in al-Awlaki
He is one of the few priests in the Catholic church who call themselves faith healers . McAlear’s blessing is a very real attempt to cure the patient with prayer, and with the laying on of hands. Because it is not a sacrament, anyone can receive the blessing, even non-Catholics.
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Thousands Believe Catholic Priest Richard McAlear Heals The Sick
So, if you were a college senior and you went to Woodstock, how old would you be today? It’s hard not to think about questions like that one while reading the Washington Post report about a new AARP sex survey , yet another story that demonstrates that there is nothing about Baby Boomer life that will escape newspaper headlines. Guess what?
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AARP Woodstock: Sex & spirituality
I have a expat friend who doesn’t pay much heed to the nuances of UK news. In the middle of Thursday night an e-mail landed, triggered by some trans-Pacific rumour. “Ooh, Tories!” it said, as a child might say “Ooh, sweeties!” and then: “Does this mean the Eighties are back?”
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Back to ’80s excess? No, been there, done that
What seems confusing and scary for the Left is not really anything of the sort. We are not here, after all, because the Liberal Democrats are weak or inconsequential, or because progressive politics has failed.
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Building bridges is the way to the future
Even before I boarded the limo to Knightsbridge, quips about hampers-for-headlines were flying about. I was about to lunch with Mohamed Al Fayed at Harrods.
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Al Fayed was a rich man happy to conform to our expectations
The Liberal Democrats may make proportional representation a condition of a settlement of the present parliamentary deadlock. The paradox is that the 2010 election is a typical example of the sort of hung Parliament that would occur under PR
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Leaders want a deal. Their followers may not