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| Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: A Debt to Ourselves |
| One devastating hurricane--with another in its train--has catapulted poverty and race to the top of our national agenda. The reaction of the Bush administration, reflecting America's shame at the slow response of government at all levels, has yielded the polar opposite. We now have a swift commitment to relief and reconstruction that might cost an unprecedented $200 billion. This raises many questions. |
| Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:00:00 EST John Leo: All in the family |
| It took the media a while to acknowledge that most of Katrina's victims were black. Apparently, it will take longer to mention that most of the victims were women and children. I noticed three commentators who brought up the delicate subject of the mostly missing males--George Will, Gary Bauer, and Thomas Bray, a columnist for the Detroit News. Will noted that 76 percent of births to Louisiana's African-Americans are to unmarried women, and probably more than 80 percent in New Orleans, since that is the usual estimate in other inner cities. Will wrote: "That translates into a large and constantly renewed cohort of lightly parented adolescent males, and that translates into chaos, in neighborhoods and schools, come rain or come shine." |
| Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:00:00 EST Church service with a smile |
| When Pastor Joel Osteen took the helm of Lakewood Church in Houston back in 1999 after the death of its founder--his father, John Osteen--he had no formal training and exactly one sermon under his belt. Six years later, the nondenominational congregation has grown from 6,000 to more than 30,000, making it the country's largest megaministry, and Osteen's message of hope and optimism has reached millions more through weekly broadcasts on networks like BET and USA and his bestselling book , Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential . The sunny, charismatic 42-year-old preacher chatted with U.S. News recently before a sold-out engagement at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. |
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