By Steve
Tuesday November 18, 2008
- The Bond between them: Alicia Keys and Jack White team up for the new 007 theme (Wall Street Journal)
- A night at The Red and the Black: Truth, beauty, and The Shackeltons by Catherina Lynsey Hurlburt (As If My Opinion Matters)
- Found: An ancient monument to the soul. In a mountainous kingdom in what is now southeastern Turkey, there lived in the eighth century B.C. a royal official, Kuttamuwa, who oversaw the completion of an inscribed stone monument, or stele, to be erected upon his death. The words instructed mourners to commemorate his life and afterlife with feasts “for my soul that is in this stele.” University of Chicago archaeologists who made the discovery last summer in ruins of a walled city near the Syrian border said the stele provided the first written evidence that the people in this region held to the religious concept of the soul apart from the body. By contrast, Semitic contemporaries, including the Israelites, believed that the body and soul were inseparable, which for them made cremation unthinkable, as noted in the Bible. (NY Times)
- The elements of success: Talent and hard work, yes, but plenty of other ingredients seem essential to achievement. A review of Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Outliers (Wall Street Journal)
- Urban outfitters: Kehinde Wiley is an art-world darling. So why doesn’t he tip his hat to an obvious inspiration? (Newsweek)
- Bush’s record in Africa receives well-deserved praise: A few hours before one of the nation’s leading African-American organizations made what many would consider an oxymoronic gesture by bestowing its Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award on President Bush, a State Department official tried to make the case for that action by DeWayne Wickham (USA Today)
- Web sites that dig for news rise as watchdogs (NY Times)
- The leadership cult: Why are we fascinated with the very thing Jesus warned us against? by Mark Galli (Christianity Today)
- A chapter for Detroit to open by Martin Feldstein (Washington Post)
- 12-year-old’s a food critic, and the chef loves it (NY Times)
- Change you can conceive in: Could euphoric Obama fans be sparking a baby boom? (Newsweek)
- The vampire of the mall: So you have your against-the-odds teen love, your woman in peril, your vampires and your cult following, but “Twilight” frenzy still has the capacity to shock. Last Monday there was a huge crush outside a mall near San Francisco, and a girl ended up with a broken nose. When Mr. Pattinson appeared at the Apple store in SoHo the week before, one young fan asked him to bite her. (NY Times)
- In a new climate, former Weatherman Bill Ayers speaks (Washington Post)
- One hundred years of wit and wisdom: Lyle Dorsett extols G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy. (Christianity Today)
- Maybe geniuses just got lucky: Malcolm Gladwell’s new book looks at why some succeed where others fail. (Newsweek)
- Mixed martial arts makes its way to high school (NY Times)
- Shooting to thrill: How does Annie Leibovitz create her eye-catching photos? (Wall Street Journal)
- J.J. Abrams reveals his Star Trek movie (NY Times)
- In Detroit, failure’s a done deal by George F. Will (Washington Post)
- Pope says Catholics in politics must follow faith (AP)
- The presidency that roared (NY Times)
- More than mere exercises: In Chopin’s 27 Études, technique and music become one (Wall Street Journal)
- A new voice rises in the Red States (Newsweek)
- The formerly middle class by David Brooks (NY Times)
- The Koran, punk rock and lots of questions: This much Hiba Siddiqui knows: She is a Muslim teenager living in America. But what does that mean for her? (LA Times)
- ‘Socialism’? It’s already here by George Will (Washington Post)
- Listening and learning in the Middle East: What it means to act as an advocate for global engagement by Lynne Hybels (Christianity Today)
- St. Flo: The improbable life of Florence Nightingale by Timothy Larsen (Books & Culture)
- Training a gimlet eye on the news media and finding them wanting: “The IFC Media Project,” a six-part series that has its premiere on the Independent Film Channel on Tuesday, calls itself a “user’s guide to how the news gets made.” (NY Times)
- ‘Romance is female Viagra,’ says Natasha Bedingfield as she reveals love-life secrets (Daily Mail)
- No mystery: Ratings heat up for ‘NCIS’ (NY Times)
- Essays in orni-theology: With a Bible in one hand and binoculars in the other, John Stott opens window to the world of winged ones. (Christianity Today)
- Obama’s church choice likely to be scrutinized (AP)
- Reese Witherspoon waxes country for Christmas (USA Today)
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