NK Eide

Juxtapost 45

"...The former intelligence official acknowledged that there had been nearly two years of debate among government agencies about what to do with the tapes, and that lawyers within the White House and the Justice Department had in 2003 advised against a plan to destroy them. But the official said that C.I.A. officials had continued to press the White House for a firm decision, and that the C.I.A. was never given a direct order not to destroy the tapes. 'They never told us, ‘Hell, no,’' he said. 'If somebody had said, ‘You cannot destroy them,’ we would not have destroyed them.'..."

Juxtapost 44

"In August 1980, as the conservative Christian movement was first transforming American politics, Ronald Reagan stood before a Dallas stadium full of 15,000 foot-stomping, hand-clapping evangelicals and pledged his fealty to the Bible. 'All the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book,' said Mr. Reagan, the Republican presidential nominee. Assisting with logistics for the event was a young seminary dropout named Mike Huckabee. 'It was the genesis for the whole movement,' Mr. Huckabee recalled of those early days..."

Juxtapose 43

"...Last Saturday, Stanford quarterback Tavita Pritchard was struck in the head by an opponent so violently that his helmet was ripped off, his bare head snapped back and forth and his skull slammed to the ground with a thud. Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan, a Heisman Trophy contender, was knocked unconscious by a crushing hit three weeks ago. The Oklahoma freshman quarterback Sam Bradford sustained a concussion while being trampled in a game two weeks ago..."

Juxtapost 42

"...Indeed, some huge churches, already politically influential, are becoming catalysts for local economic development, challenging a conventional view that churches drain a town financially by generating lower-paid jobs, taking land off the property-tax rolls and increasing traffic. But the entrepreneurial activities of churches pose questions for their communities that do not arise with secular development. These enterprises, whose sponsoring churches benefit from a variety of tax breaks and regulatory exemptions given to religious organizations in this country, sometimes provoke complaints from for-profit businesses with which they compete..."