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belongs to someone else. If a government, though, has an inherent right to tax its citizens, who can say at what point such taxation ­constitutes taking something to which it is not entitled? Jesus told us to give to Caesar what is Caesar’s. At which marginal tax rate does Caesar’s right end? A 32 percent tax rate might strike me as destructively high for the national good—but I’m not sure I can call it theft. A Ntilo h ng eft Christian in a thoroughly socialist nation is still biblically obligated to pay his taxes fully and honestly. to covet But there’s no such ambiguity about ­coveting. And especially so when the politicians Comparing Commandments 8 and 10 who call for higher taxes on the rich explicitly structure their argument on a blatant encour- agement of envy and class covetousness. I wish n all the discussion about tax breaks for the rich, two fairly President Barack Obama and his whole staff had simple facts are really all you need to know. had to memorize as children what my parents Fact No. 1 is that only 3 percent of all the taxpayers in the taught me from the Westminster Shorter United States pay more in income taxes than the other 97 percent Catechism, whose 81st question earned this combined. Fact No. 2 is that even if you taxed that 3 percent of our answer: “The Tenth Commandment forbids all population at a rate of 100 percent of their income, you wouldn’t discontentment with our own estate, envying or produce enough additional revenue to cover the deficits our grieving at the good of our neighbor, and all ­federal government is now incurring each year. inordinate motions and affections to anything There’s a lot more, of course, you might learn and know about that is his.” Try hanging that on the wall of taxes. But keep these first two facts in mind as you try to process every room where government tax policy is the big debate between those, on the one hand, who want to ­discussed and established. extend tax breaks enacted by the Bush administration in 2003 and See, God has structured and ordered things those, on the other hand, who say it’s time to end those tax breaks so that coveting is an unusually unproductive and make rich people pay more of their “fair share.” exercise. We sit and stew all day and wish we Wealthy as our nation is—and even in its current economic were as rich as our neighbor—and at the end of funk it is incredibly rich—it isn’t wealthy enough to do everything the day, even if the tax law gets changed so that we have committed to. We’ve run up to their rich people have to pay 40 limit a suitcase full of national credit cards, percent of their income Iand now find there’s no way to make the instead of just 30 percent, monthly payments. So we do what the coveters end up with comes most naturally in such a virtually none of that ­desperate situation. We covet. difference. We glance to the right and to the That’s why I started left and we see a few folks who, from with the two simple the looks of things, have more of this facts of our current world’s goods than we do. At first, we tax structure. We’ve simply muse how much easier life would gotten to the point that it be if we just had a little more of what they doesn’t matter much already have. Then we start thinking: ­anymore how we change Maybe it’s my right to have what they things. All the taxpayers have. And the Tenth Commandment together haven’t got looks increasingly frayed with every enough money now to new government wealth-transfer change the fact that program. we’ve spent ourselves I’ve heard from a number of into oblivion. There’s WORLD readers who refer to this as not a whole lot left to e i

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5 Dispatches > News Brazilians vote Brazilians will head to the polls on Oct. 3 to pick a successor for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is barred by national law from running for a fourth term. Bible-based help that pulls them out. The left-wing Lula has been criticized for his Other groups were in the lead at various willingness to make deals with any world lead- times during the voting, but Freedom for ers—even tyrants. But current polls indicate Youth surged near the end. voters aren’t likely to swing against Lula’s All four finalists sent their leaders to preferred candidate, Dilma Rousseff, in favor of lead center-right candidate Jose Serra. New York City for our awards ceremony on Sept. 16. Freedom for Youth executive director Mark Nelson spoke to the three usseff: usseff: R runners-up as he accepted the Hope o Award, saying, “You did not get here by M i being friends of the secular world. You Loo kiNG chel

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Delaware Democratic Senate candidate Chris Coons holds a 15 point Chris Coons Democratic Senate candidate Delaware to challenger Christine O’Donnell, according lead over Republican Castle That’s the same margin that Rep. Mike recent a Fox News poll. primary. he lost to O’Donnell in the September held over Coons before while an Institute’s Henry Olsen argues that The American Enterprise have unlikely, the demographics of Delaware O’Donnell victory is and election. Two conservative counties, Kent changed since the last liberal dramatically while the most influential Sussex, have grown imagines has been losing its share of the vote. He county, New Castle, pull off a turnout, O’Donnell has a chance to that with low Democratic assume estimates assume a lot. They especially narrow victory. “These the is competently run, well financed, and O’Donnell’s campaign Delaware tea Delaware the law took effect—including allowing college students to stay on their parents’ insurance the law took effect—including allowing college 8 federal deficit over the next 20 years. The event coincided with the date new provisions of ­federal deficit over the next 20 years. The

weeks to go before midterm elections, them from rejecting children with preexisting medical conditions. And Mississippi Rep. Gene them from rejecting children with preexisting medical conditions. And Mississippi Rep. Gene Taylor became the first Democrat to sign onto a petition to repeal healthcare reform. Taylor Taylor became the first Democrat to sign onto a petition to repeal healthcare reform. Taylor policies until they are 26 and ending policy limits for those with chronic diseases. Major health policies until they are 26 and ending policy limits

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For North Koreans living in the believe are helping the most isolated country in the country develop and world, two dramatic changes sell conventional >> appear poised to reshape the arms and weapons of ­enigmatic nation: an aging leader mass destruction. The ­contemplating the first shift of power in sanctions also target decades, and a worsening economy that Office 39—a clan­ threatens a return to famine. destine unit of the Members of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party that offi- Workers’ Party were set to meet in cials believe serves as a slush Pyongyang on Sept. 28 for the first time fund for Kim Jong Il. U.S. in nearly 66 years, and many expected ­officials say while millions of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to begin North Koreans faced food the process for his third son to become shortages, members of his successor. A power shift seemed Office 39 helped import inevitable: Kim Jong Il, 69, reportedly two luxury yachts worth suffered a stroke in 2008 and has since $15 million for Kim Jong Il appeared frail in sporadic public last year. appearances. While North Koreans Whoever assumes power in North wait to see how a Korea inherits a crisis at home and regime change might abroad. Aid groups say a devalued cur- change the regime, rency and rising prices have led to food minority groups are shortages in many regions that could especially eager for signs spiral into the kind of famine that killed of relief. Carl Moeller of Open massive numbers of North Koreans in Doors USA, a group supporting the 1990s. Severe flooding in August persecuted Christians, urges worsened humanitarian conditions and Christians to pray that any change left North Korean officials asking South coming to North Korea would be “a Korea for rice—a desperate move con- positive one for the Christians there— sidering the tense relations between the including the 40,000 to 50,000 two nations. believers who are suffering in North South Korea offered $10 million in Korean prison camps where 200,000 aid to its northern neighbor during the people are held.” e

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sterilizations in Shandong province. Chen and his family remain under heavy surveillance and the threat of imprisonment if they fail to cooperate with authorities. awarded The White House announced it will award Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, 25, the Medal of Honor, marking the first time since the Vietnam War that the nation’s highest award for valor will be bestowed on a living ­soldier. While serving in Afghanistan in 2007, Giunta rushed into an ambush to save Released an injured soldier­ from falling Sarah Shourd flew out of Iran into enemy hands.

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Now, after the A rmed, not dangerous Kentucky inmate has filed more than 3,800 Credit one Portland, Ore., resident for being observant, just not observant enough. After spotting a lawsuits against defen- man in a shop with a gun, a passerby phoned police. Armed with an address, police responded to the dants as diverse as storefront—a gun shop—only to discover the suspect holding a weapon was simply a man selling his gun. George W. Bush, celeb- rity blogger Perez Hilton, and various Pushin g the limit Somali pirates—as well If Gino DiSimone’s idea is any indication, as non-human targets Nevada’s budget woes are desperate. The minor like the dwarf planet independent candidate for governor of the Pluto, Three Mile Island, Silver State has proposed legalizing certain and the Lincoln forms of speeding as a way to close the state’s Memorial—some fed- budget deficit. DiSimone’s “Free Limit Plan” eral judicial officials are would allow drivers to purchase 24-hour passes firing back. In an p a to increase their personal speed limit to 90 mph / unusual move, federal S S I

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defies solution is reconciling gravity at the macro level with quantum mechanics at the sub-micro level, a challenge leading to complex theories of multi-universes and multi-dimensions. Without going into detail—which I couldn’t even if I wanted to—some physicists have staked their hopes on “string theory,” an extrapolation of which (“M-theory”) forms the premise of Hawking’s new book. The Grand Design, co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow, has received skeptical reviews from scientists who are not convinced. My uneducated guess is that string theory and M theory will prove a dead end, simply because we’re running out of ways to test them. Strings can’t be observed, by any means in the foreseeable future; they can only be conjectured, and calcu- lated, and used as the basis for predictions that may or may not pan out. In the last decades we’ve seen science edging into territory occupied by religion. God can’t be observed either; we know Him by His effects, just as we know the uncertainty principle. Every report of “scientific evidence” for the nonexistence of God is followed by reams of H ’ awking s wager commentary pro and con, with the pro side confidently asserting that God will soon be A bold physicist says science will defeat ­disproved if He isn’t already. That’s what Stephen Hawking predicted in an interview religion, but we’ve heard that before with Diane Sawyer last June: “Religion will be defeated by science.” We’ve heard that before, e re’s the obvious: Stephen Hawking is brilliant, coura- but it seems even less likely now, for the geous, and an excellent communicator. (I’ve read or farther we push the frontiers of knowledge, the attempted several books on quantum physics and his less we know for certain. Hawking’s personal Brief History of Time is the most understandable.) His story gives the declaration­ a noble ring: a recent announcement that God is not necessary for the fertile mind in a shriveled body, boldly taking universe to exist, coming a few days before the release of Pascal’s wager. “Science will win because it his most recent book, proves he’s a savvy publicist as works.” well. Faith also “works,” and a God-shaped hole Though it made news, the announcement should have remains in the heart of humanity that science taken nobody by surprise. Some Christian apologists can’t explain. Accounting for our innate sense of have regarded the last sentence of Brief History as proof soul or morality by naturalistic causes can only that Hawking left the God hypothesis open: “If we find produce theories of what might be the cause. the answer to [why the universe exists], it would be the Unbelievers regard this speculation as “proof,” ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would but God can’t be scientifically proven, or dis- know the mind of God.” But that sentence is purely met- proven. His provenance is outside of science. As aphorical, as he uses “God” throughout the book to represent that which Jesus said (John 7:17), “If anyone’s will is to do we don’t yet know. He’s been working feverishly to close all possible gaps God’s will, he will know whether [my] teaching before he dies—which surely won’t be long. When first diagnosed with ALS is from God.” In other words, one must believe Hat the age of 21, he was expected to live about 10 years. He’s almost 70 now, before one can know. an astonishing achievement in itself. Work has been his life and no doubt “There is no god!” (Psalm 14:1) is a starting contributed to his longevity, but his own brief history is running out and point, not an inevitable conclusion. God exists, P VID D he may want to exit with, excuse the expression, a big bang. Namely, his or He doesn’t—those are the only two basic a

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available, even if their names Sorvino and Kate Levering aren’t recognizable from an (Drop Dead Diva) don’t quite ’80s sitcom. Barry Pepper (The reach their costars’ level of Green Mile) plays Rip, an abu- excellence, but they’re still sive alcoholic who is released miles beyond what audiences from prison to discover that have come to expect from his wife placed their son for Christian productions. adoption six years earlier. However, most of the Pepper brings a level of credit should probably go to ­compassion rarely developed director Jon Dunn, who takes in such roles. From his mum- a story that could have easily bling, bleary-eyed arrest to become a Lifetime movie-of- his determination to build his the-week with a redemptive family out of another’s broken theme tacked on and handles it with sensitivity and subtlety. He takes his time, trusting the viewer to understand his characters without drawing them in big, clichéd gestures and to connect with them MOVIE despite their flaws. By showing the people in his movie more L egend of the respect than slotting them into categories of the saved/ Guardians good ones and the lost/bad by Rebecca Cusey ones, his film stands a much better chance than countless World War II has become the very definition of a just Pepper (left) and Hauser square off. others that came before it of >> war—the sort of war that must be fought to restrain evil— reaching an audience outside and the stories of that struggle have trickled down into pieces, Pepper never strikes a the pews. ­children’s stories. The new 3D animated feature Legends of false note. He shows us a man One particular scene the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole retells the story of the who is weak, troubled, and stands out as an example of Second World War and a desperate stand against evil. selfish, but not soulless. Dunn’s restraint. When a Soren (voiced by Jim Sturgess) and Kludd (Ryan Kwanten) Though the script never says court order forces Jack to turn live with their baby sister and parents in a safe tree, hearing so explicitly, Pepper’s his son over to a social worker with different degrees of belief the noble legends of the nuanced performance sug- who will then take the boy to Ga’Hoole owls. Their fledgling-hood is short-lived, however. gests that however deep in his birth parents, Dunn Kidnapped by the owls of St. Aggie’s, they are forced to serve the mire Rip may be, he is doesn’t show Jack falling on the evil Metal Beak (Joel Edgerton). Metal Beak plans a redeemable. his son’s neck in sobs. Instead, ­conquest of the owl world in order to enslave other species As Jack Campbell, the we see him sitting silently, of owls into service of the “pure ones.” Soren escapes St.

adoptive father desperate to stroking the boy’s bare feet, Aggie’s, along with a tiny owl named Glyfie (Emily Barclay). I DAND E

hold on to his son, Cole trying to control his emotions. Together, they must find the legendary guardians and L O N Hauser (Paparazzi) also It is a small moment, all the ­convince them to put an end to Metal Beak’s plans. Do : w

Based on the popular book series by Kathryn Lasky, the n ­cultivates a character that is more effective for its stillness. e s Brothers Brothers s more complex than he This isn’t to say the movie movie richly lays out the different philosophies by which the ­probably appeared on paper. is perfect. One tension-filled­ owls live. Metal Beak believes the strong will rule and the weak E n

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wrenched the hearts of late so that there’s a rush to the weak. The peace-loving guardians are slow to commit to a in m e

women over the years. bring it to a conclusion. And battle, but when they must, they fight with courage and honor. n t • • l

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line ideal of family protector end, but this is easy to forgive moments, he slows the action down so you can see the ruffle of r n e in a situation beyond his con- in view of the whole. Between wind across a feather and the spark of a talon hitting rock. The P Bros. r trol will resonate with fathers. Hallmark and reality, Like result is beautiful animation, made even richer by 3D. Rated PG i c t

As the birth and adoptive Dandelion Dust almost always for some sequences of scary action, this film is appropriate for ures mothers, Oscar winner Mira manages to convey reality. A all but the youngest children. It avoids the off-color humor that often sneaks into kids’ movies. Indeed, this is one of those rare children’s films that offers a noble tale, well told. 24 WORLD O C T O B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 MOVIE Never Let Me Go is not the story of how Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy escape this Never Let Me Go oppressive system. Instead, it’s a very by Sam Thielman simple love story told by kids who are going to be murdered for the conve- It’s tempting to shorten a review of Never nience of people who style themselves >> Let Me Go to four words (“read the book their betters. instead”), but a few things need to be said about The book, written by Kazuo Ishiguro, what is surely the most romantic bioethics movie is subtle and affecting and communicates ever made. with great care just how human its heroes Never Let Me Go (rated R for some sexuality are, just how monstrous it would be to kill and nudity) at first appears to be a proper boarding them, without ever saying so outright. The school story about children at an academy in rural book is a masterpiece, and the film needs England called Hailsham. Kathy (Carey Mulligan) a better screenplay to be effective (this has nice classmates and good teachers, and she is one is a rare misfire by Alex Garland). gradually learning about friendship with Ruth There are all kinds of great textual themes (Kiera Knightley) and love with Tommy (Andrew running through the book, and there’s no Garfield). And yet there are no parents anywhere, visual correspondent to those in the film, and the adults who aren’t teachers at the school so it bores even as it horrifies. seem strangely put off by the kids. But once it starts to occur to you that Hailsham, briefly, is a boarding school in name only. It is actually the metaphorical subject of the movie might be, say, abortion, or stem- an organ farm, a place where the clones of healthy people are raised cell research, it’s very difficult to keep the notion out of your head as to maturity, whereupon their major organs are harvested to benefit the narrative progresses. As a movie, it ain’t that great. As a conver- the rest of the world. sation starter, it’s very good indeed. Oh, and read the book instead.

addict brother’s suicide. Despite her left-wing ­passion against all Boxf Of ice Top 10 things capitalist, she For the weekend of sept. 17-19, ­ lives with Jake Moore according to Box Office Mojo (Shia LaBeouf), a trader cautions: Quantity of sexual (S), ­violent (V), at a huge investment and foul-language (L) ­content on a 0-10 scale, with 10 high, from kids-in-mind.com banking firm. Jake has soul. You S V L `1 The Town r...... can tell because his pet 7 8 10 `2 Easy A* pg-13...... project is building a 7 2 4 `3 Devil pg-13...... 3 8 4 plant that somehow `4 Resident Evil: Afterlife r...... 1 9 5 converts sea water into `5 Alpha and Omega pg...... 2 4 1 power, “giving off more MOVIE ` 6 Takers pg-13...... 4 6 5 energy than you put into it,” the holy grail of ` 7 The American* r...... 9 7 5 left-wing environmentalism. When Jake’s ` 8 The Other Guys* pg-13...... 5 6 5 Wall Street: mentor is ruined, greed and revenge drive ` 9 Inception* pg-13...... 1 7 4 x Jake to collude secretly with his fiance’s ` 10 Machete r...... 8 10 8 father. Gekko, of course, is just as greedy ury Fo Money Never t n and untrustworthy as he was before prison. *Reviewed by world Sleeps Coming from Oliver Stone, the movie er/20th Ce h (rated PG-13 for language) is less anti-­ c by Rebecca Cusey capitalist than one would expect. He everywhere,” a favorite conspiracy theory ry Wet r a The love of money is the root of all respects Wall Street but takes shots not of the left. B : >> kinds of evil, the Apostle Paul taught, only at the firms whose bad loans triggered Because the overly ambitious storyline TREET S and director Oliver Stone aims to prove him the mortgage collapse of 2008, but also at lacks clarity, the film lacks the pulse- right in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the individual greed of people buying pounding energy of the original. What heart t • WALL h ig l the sequel to the 1987 film Wall Street. houses they could not afford or taking there is comes from the family drama h c r a In 2008, corporate raider Gordon Gekko credit on their inflated housing values for among Jake, Winnie, and Gordon. Greed e S x (Michael Douglas) reenters society shamed fancy vacations and cars. The government once again tempts Gordon to betray his y/Fo e

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N R A to speak to him and blames him for her CEO because “oil is limited and water is money leads to very evil things indeed.

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We learn more about K atrina plus five ­officials who not only did their Dn a Baum skillfully captures life in New Orleans in jobs poorly but throttled many the midst of the historic hurricane Byrn Ma vi Olasky who wanted to volunteer. One SOME FIFTH ANNIVERSARY wealthy but no- Hurricane Katrina specials showed nonsense New the difficulty of capturing how Orleans leader >> New Orleans is so special. I’ve tells how he and made brief visits and gotten a sense of others “figured ­sizzle (see WORLD, “New Faces of New we could round up some barges in Baton Orleans,” Aug. 15, 2009), but writers Rouge, load them with food and water, need to invest a lot of time there to bite and float them down the river to the into the steak. Both the investment and Convention Center. We’d bring people out the return in Dan Baum’s Nine Lives: on the return trip. I made the fatal mistake Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New of asking for permission.” No go. Orleans (Random House, 2009) are One of the sad running gags for a few impressive. pages arises from attempts of courageous Baum, a former New Yorker writer, coroner Frank Minyard to get someone to used multiple in-depth interviews to pick up corpses from the street. Officers of ­display the lives of nine New Orleans the 82nd Airborne, the National Guard, ­residents, tracing some of their stories and the state police offer to help but are back to the previous Big One, Hurricane countermanded by superiors. Turns out Betsy in 1965. His terrific mix includes a officials want it done by contract with a big policeman, a transsexual, a coroner, a funeral-home corporation: Minyard says, bandleader, a high-society businessman, “Let me see if I’ve got this straight. Dead a long-time Lower Ninth Ward resident, people rot on the streets of New Orleans and the wife of a Mardi Gras Indian. for a week and a half so the feds can sign a The climax, of course, comes in the New private contract.” Orleans week from hell that began on Aug. One of the nine major characters, Ronald 28, 2005. Baum’s buildup of characteriza- Lewis, whose experience with Hurricane tion over the first 200 pages pays off. Betsy in 1965 begins the book, reflects near We’ve gotten to know Tim Bruneau as a the end about the Katrina experience: “The tough cop, so when shutting-down government dangled a lot of resources, morgues refuse to take from his back seat and it made everybody freeze up. Nobody the corpse of Marie, a young addict killed wanted to start in until they saw what by a falling lamppost, his musing about her they were going to get. We knew after background shows a compassionate leap: Betsy we weren’t going to get no help from “Tim’s eyes drifted shut. The burned- anybody. . . and maybe that was better.” out, weed-choked house on Jackson Given that Nine Lives offers up some Avenue had been there since Marie was a unbiblical language and lifestyles, it’s not teenager, maybe longer. Coming up in a for everyone, but part of the reality offered neighborhood like that, with [expletive] up near the end is the reality of God. schools, whores, drug dealers—she never Ronald Lewis told Dan Baum that Jesus is had a chance. His chest tightened, and the “always just in time. Every time Ronald backs of his eyeballs felt soupy. Pretty girl, would feel himself edging toward despair, dead at 24. Tim’s eyes popped open. the Lord would reach out His hand and Whoa. . . . Anybody could rise above pull him back.” Still, occasional passages ­anything in America. No, they can’t, notwithstanding, Nine Lives is neither a

Marie said, from the backseat. How was I political book nor a religious book. It’s C Chr i s

supposed to break out of there?. . . I tell New Orleans as seen by nine diverse S h n e

you what, I don’t even know how it’s ­perspectives captured by a talented and i d e done. I never seen nobody doing it.” persevering writer, and that’s plenty. A r

26 WORLD O C T O B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 Email: [email protected] NOT ABLE BOOKS Four mysteries/thrillers > reviewed by susan olasky

The Silent Spirit Margaret Coel Margaret Coel’s Arapaho mysteries feature an Arapaho lawyer whose partner wants to handle big cases involving tribal mineral rights and land claims. She is drawn to cases involving little guys—the no-good son of a friend or the ex-con grandson of a tribal elder, for instance. She is often in conflict with her partner and in agreement with Father John, the mission priest, with whom she shares an unfulfilled attraction. Fans of Tony SPOTIHT L G Hillerman will appreciate Coel’s respectful depiction of Native American culture and her ability to illumine tensions between Every week I receive Native and broader American cultures. I’ve read three books in ­unsolicited copies of self- the series—all had clean language, but a 2008 novel featuring published books and emails investigative journalist Catherine McLeod did not. recommending that I review others. Most newspapers and magazines don’t review Moscow Stings Alex Dryden books from these publishers, In this engaging and fast-paced thriller, Russians, Americans, but I have done so occasion- and Brits all want to find former KGB colonel Anna Resnikov, ally—and it seems wrong to who disappears after the Russians assassinate her husband, a have a blanket policy against former British spy. She’s particularly valuable because her the books, even though husband controlled Mikhail, a Russian mole—and she knows many of them are poorly Mikhail’s identity. In the background is Vladimir Putin, who written and edited. controls Moscow’s levers of power and has helped his cronies Since I have a very small become billionaires. Meanwhile, in the United States, private apartment, limited space for intelligence agencies compete with the CIA to control books, and limited time, I am ­information, sources, and government contracts. Dryden’s instituting a new policy. I will spies are an amoral lot, with shifting loyalties and a willingness only look at self-published to do just about anything to get a contract, make money, or books by subscribers to the consolidate power. Sometimes they rise above the intrigue to pursue magazine. They should be love or protect a child. sent to WORLD’s Asheville offices. (The mailing address I’d Know You Anywhere Laura Lippman for packages is in the front Eliza Benedict was only 15 when she was kidnapped for 39 days of the magazine.) Our by a man who had already killed several girls. Now, more than 20 ­associate there will collect years have passed and the man is on death row, awaiting his the books and send them to execution date for the murder of another girl. He sees a picture me twice a year. I will look of Eliza in the newspaper and writes a letter to her, opening up through them and choose memories and threatening the safe and stable existence she has the best for mention or established with her husband and two children. Lippman’s skillful review on our book pages. I storytelling shows the psychological power the bad guy had will not be able to respond over his teenage victims, and how even 20 years later he is still personally to emails. Thanks hoping to manipulate his way out of the death chamber. The for understanding. —S.O. book has a few crudities and mild sexual references.

Borderline Nevada Barr Barr’s series protagonist, National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon, is on leave for post-traumatic stress after she killed a k c

to man in her last novel. She and her husband of a year, sheriff and s i

er: Episcopal priest Paul Davidson, decide to take a rafting trip in Big t i r w

e Bend Park on the Texas-Mexico border. Four college students p and a guide make up the rest of the party. What is supposed to s • ty e g a be a five-day float down the river turns into a struggle for m i

tty ­survival, and Barr is a master at describing villainy in wild places. e g : t

p Pigeon’s marriage to an Episcopal priest makes her prone to i r c speculate on the nature of man and the existence or nonexis- u a m n s tence of God more than she did in earlier books.

Email: [email protected]; see all our reviews at worldmag.com/books O C T B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 WORLD 27 Reviews > Q&A A n almost ally M otivated by devotion to free-market principles, conservative activist Grover Norquist works with all communities of faith By Marvin Olasky

Grover Norquist, who Norquist’s coming of age and Q: You learned about this parties­ were not divided on celebrates his 54th emphasized commonalities when you were 12. My public ­ideological grounds. birthday on Oct. 19, dif- without pretending that library was getting rid of all the Q: Some of that depended >> fers from many evan- ­significant differences don’t old, un-useful books, meaning all on voting patterns dating to gelicals in his views of Islam and exist. the conservative ones, and sell- the Civil War. You had little old homosexual groups, but agrees ing them for a nickel or a dime. I ladies in Mississippi who agreed with most in supporting lower Q: What was it like went to one of those sales and with Ronald Reagan on every- taxes and limited government. ­growing up during the Cold picked up J. Edgar Hoover’s thing but voted for George As founder and head for the War? Young people don’t Masters of Deceit and Herb McGovern because Sherman past 25 years of Americans for ­realize how much the Cold War Philbrick’s I Led Three Lives. I had been mean to Atlanta. You Tax Reform, he is a prime shaped the thinking of those of was an anti-Communist first, had people up in Maine who ALLIN J example on economic issues of us who are older. Some people and everything else afterward. were Republicans even though a y what Francis Schaeffer called a in the United States wanted us Q: You survived Harvard they agreed with George M /

co-belligerent—not an ally, but to lose the struggle with the and then moved to McGovern and Ted Kennedy on B l o one evangelicals can work with Soviet Union. The U.S. had an Washington at the end of the everything, because the guy at om b e r

on those issues (and oppose on active Communist party that era of “bipartisanship.” From Little Round Top was from g / other issues). got cash secretly from the the 1940s through the 1970s Maine. Im Getty

Here’s an edited version of Soviet Union. There were spies everything was bipartisan, Q: Immigrant traditions a g e our interview, which looked at and traitors. because the two political also were important. The Irish s

28 WORLD O C T O B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 they want to be left alone. It’s movies, because they’re “Let’s throw those bums out, not important to them that you ­wondering who to eat or throw they’re as corrupt as the like them. It’s important to overboard. Our job is to reduce ­previous set of bums”? Some them that the government the amount of money available Republican leaders believed the leaves them alone. to hire Democratic precinct clever way to get Republicans Q: And the Takings workers: Force them to gnaw reelected was to have them do Coalition? The Takings on each others’ ankles so that earmarks. If you’re raising Coalition is made up of trial when we meet them in two or money in D.C. from special ­lawyers, labor unions, and the four years at the next election, interest groups who just want two wings of the dependency there are fewer of them and earmarks, you’re not raising movement—the people who are they’re shorter. your money from citizens in locked into welfare depen- Q: How do you get some your district who just want dency and the people who tall Republican precinct good government. This made make $90,000 a year managing workers? Around the everything too D.C.-centric. the dependency of others and Republican table, we want more Q: You came to con­ making sure they don’t get jobs people to be invested in the servatism through Cold War and become Republicans. broader market so that they will concerns about the Soviet Q: Garnering votes understand all taxes on busi- Union. In our new cold/hot through dependency? The old nesses and individuals are bad war against Islamists, some New Deal and Great Society for you. The Republicans want conservatives—noting your programs no longer buy votes, to make more Republicans; marriage to a Muslim and because people who paid into Democrats want to make your work with some Muslim Social Security and Medicare ­people more dependent on groups—are attacking you. think they earned it, whereas state power and resources. I’ve done outreach to all the guys getting government Q: The Takings party religious communities in the grants know perfectly well that seems to be the party of United States, and you get flack they didn’t earn that money. macro-avarice. Is there such for it. I do a lot of work with the They’re much more likely to go a thing as micro-avarice? The Orthodox Jewish community, out and be precinct workers for left likes to argue that if you which is increasingly you. So, the strategy: Cut all of earned a dollar and you want to Republican. . . . We set up a those entitlements that people keep it, you’re greedy. My idea group, the Islamic Free Market don’t vote to reward you for, is that if you earned a dollar and Institute, because there wasn’t and instead hand out other Fred wants to steal it, Fred’s anyone doing outreach in the cash. They want people to rec- greedy. The left position liter- Muslim community. As a ognize their dependence and ally is, if you’re against higher ­conservative and as a say, “Thank you, President, for taxes on you, you’re greedy. Republican, I advocate working giving me stuff, and I will There’s a big distinction there. with all communities of faith. immigrant who showed up in remember to vote for you.” The left always calls the right Q: You also work with Boston—the guy who was Q: Any others in the Takers greedy and selfish. GOProud, a pro-gay organi- mean to him was a Protestant Coalition? You’ve got all the What are the three things zation of fiscal conservatives. Republican so he became a coercive utopians, the radical most likely to make you more I am on their board of advisors. Democrat. The Italian showed environmentalists with lots of Republican? Getting married, I advise them on politics. I am up and the guy who was mean ideas about how the state having kids, and being a person not on their board of directors. to him was the Irish Democrat should help you run your life for of faith. What are the three GOProud is a conservative so he became a Republican. your personal edification. These things that deal with self-­ group that endorsed and ran Q: During the Reagan era are the people who invented sacrifice? The decision to com- ads for [GOP Senate candidate] the parties separated . . . You cars too small to put your entire mit yourself to somebody else, Carly Fiorina against former saw it start with Goldwater. family into and toilets that don’t raise kids, and that you’re not in Congressman Tom Campbell. Reagan was the successful flush completely. charge, God is. That really blows Carly supports traditional Goldwater. Now there are two Q: What’s your strategy a hole in the argument that the ­marriage and Tom Campbell teams: the Leave-Us-Alone against the takers? Our job is less selfish you are the more supports gay marriage, but Coalition and the Takings to stop the flow of cash so that Democratic you are. Carly signed the Taxpayer Coalition. The Leave-Us-Alone everybody around the left’s Q: What happened to the Protection Pledge and Tom did coalition is made up of people table begins to look at each Republican revolution of 1994 not. GOProud supports who are there because on the other a little more like the sec- to the point where 12 years ­candidates who fight for less issue that moves their vote, ond-to-last scene in the lifeboat later voters were saying, spending and lower taxes. A

Email: [email protected] O C T B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 WORLD 29 Reviews > Music

Against the tide Three musicians offer right-of-center listeners something to enjoy Byrsenio a orteza

The balkanization of pop radio music has been described THREE’S ALOUD: Buzzo, W.K., horror-show stomp and the exponentially proliferating by Gutfeld as a “relent- and Hamm (from left to right). (on their latest, and number of acts releasing music has lessly positive . . . wall of 18th, album, The Bride >> made it harder than ever for music sound run through a thresher run by Screamed Murder [Ipecac]) is intended as fans to find music they like. And if those Freddie Mercury,” and the word that an anti-antiestablishment anthem. Like fans lean to the right and aren’t given to recurs most often in his lyrics and titles the eclectic and amorphous punk-metal digging through haystacks of the puerile is “party.” But, as W.K. himself has said, that they accompany, Buzzo’s lyrics gen- or the sleazy in search of conservative, he relishes “floating” in the paradoxical erally seem to emerge from an unclassi- om om f or at least conservative-friendly, “middle ground” between the shallow fiable place in his subconscious. But even r l e

at their weirdest they don’t clash with f ­needles, the hunt is harder still. and the deep. t to r to Enter Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld, the And he’s serious about the “floating.” his status as a member of the Republican i g h t: t:

irreverently freewheeling FOX News Although his latest release, Close Calls Party—if only because they don’t inter- S e a n

sect with it at all. And, like W.K., he’s show in which the titular host and an with Brick Walls (Universal) (a two-disc S m u

ever-changing cast of panelists, some of packaging of his 2006, Asia-only album still married to the wife of his youth. d a / n e

whom are musicians, prove the G.K. of the same name with the rarities As for Regie Hamm, his appearing on w s c Chesterton nostrum that “supreme omnibus Mother of Mankind) is plenty a FOX-identified entertainment show o m; m; M

strength is shown in levity.” Not every loud, his 55 Cadillac (Ecstatic Peace!) won’t surprise anyone familiar with his ic h a e

Red Eye panelist is a full-on culture war- from 2009 is 40 minutes of piano impro- track record (he penned Clay Crosse’s l

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rior, but, in our present over-politicized visation, broken up into tracks with 1990s CCM smash “I Surrender All”). ci s a n

moment, merely to appear on the show titles like “Night Driver” and “Central And his latest CD, Set It on Fire (Tate), o /W i is to rage against the machine. Park Cruiser,” and categorized, only proves that there’s a lot more where r eIm a

In recent months, the show has somewhat accurately, as New Age. But that song came from. g e / g

treated viewers to the wit and wisdom as a classically-trained-pianist-turned- Whether it’s his American Idol- e tty tty i of the alternative rocker Andrew W.K., rocker, W.K. makes the project work. showcased composition “The Time of My m a g e

the Melvins frontman King Buzzo (aka And, as a sample of what W.K. has called Life” (included as a bonus track), s; R “Buzz” Osborne), and the veteran CCM the “sound of a piano being played by a “Pictures of People I Love” (a refreshingly ick

D i a singer-songwriter Regie Hamm, each of free man,” perhaps it explains his com- unsentimental filial-love song), or “Not m o n d

whom is as busy as he’s ever been at patibility with the Red Eye crowd better Today” (which goes “They say we won’t / W i r singing (and rocking) the body-politic than any of his albums with words. need God no more, / they say we won’t eIm a g

electric. King Buzzo’s words don’t exactly need his crucified Son. / But not today”), e / g e In terms of his music and his public make for Tea Party manifestos either— he provides ample evidence that enter- tty i m

persona, Andrew W.K. is probably the that is, unless the Melvins’ transformation tainment and emotional maturity are by a g e least overtly political of the three. His of the Who’s “My Generation” into a slow, no means mutually exclusive. A s

30 WORLD O C T O B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 Email: [email protected] NOT ABLE CDs Five noteworthy new releases > reviewed by arsenio orteza

Station to Station (Special Edition) David Bowie Of Bowie reissues there will apparently be no end, and not even calling them “Special Editions” will make them any more special than they were the first (or second) time. What’s different about this latest go-around for the 1976 album that estab- lished Bowie as an artist (as opposed to a mere rock star) is two discs of contemporaneous live recordings, extended notes, and some postcards. What’s special is what was never anything less: 34 minutes of metamorphic space-rock worthy of surrounding all four minutes of “Golden Years.” Bang Goes the Knighthood The Divine Comedy For 20 years now, the Irishman Neil Hannon has been delighting his mostly U.K. audience with SPOTIHT L G music that combines show-tune panache and chamber-pop elegance and delivering it with a Robert Plant was a favorite target drollery as waggish as it is refined. And if when all of anti-rock evangelists in the is sung and done his music has remained too 1970s because of the alleged back- European for America, it’s America and not his ward messages in the Led Zeppelin music that has suffered. “Have You Ever Been in songs he sang and the occult inter- Love” and “I Like” are sophisticated love songs ests of his bandmate Jimmy Page, the likes of which Rogers and Hammerstein fans but for the second album in a row were sure they’d never hear again. he has entrusted himself to a Christian producer. Last time it was Downtown Church Patty Griffin T-Bone Burnett (Raising Sand). This Those impressed with Griffin’s performance as time it’s Buddy Miller, who with his second vocalist on Robert Plant’s Buddy Miller– wife Julie has done yeoman’s work produced, folk-roots Band of Joy will be equally in keeping Americana music impressed with her performance as first vocalist ­connected to its gospel roots. on this Buddy Miller–produced, folk-roots foray. So maybe it But whereas the gospel content of Plant’s album was inevitable is merely one strand in a tapestry, here it’s the that Band of entire spool. Public-domain covers and joyful Joy (Rounder) noises (Griffin’s Dolly Parton-meets-Maria would include Muldaur voice chief among them) predominate, something but it’s the quiet Griffin original “Coming Home to along those Me” that will move prodigal sons and daughters lines. But who’d everywhere to soul-cleansing tears. have thought those lines would’ve inter- My Room in the Trees The Innocence Mission sected at 90-degree angles to form “Once letting go,” sings Karen Peris on this a crossroads where Plant would album’s opening track, “rain sails us in a leafy stand and deliver a spooky, deeply boat, / down the street.” And those lines pretty heartfelt, banjo-accompanied ren- much capture the increasingly diaphanous sound dition of “Satan Your Kingdom Must of this Catholic progressive-folk (not to be Come Down”? “I’m gonna pray ’til ­confused with “progressive-Catholic folk”) group. they tear your kingdom down,” he They capture a lot of the subject matter too: Rain, sings, and not even by playing it leaves, and birds abound. The Catholicism drifts backwards could one accuse it (or p a surface-ward only once (“God Is Love”), but it Plant) of / i r JOY: Miller, Plant, g e probably explains the music’s contemplative and Patty Griffin ­sympathy l

o ­stillness. Even the one called “Shout for Joy” (from left to right). for the devil. l r a

C l A sounds like peace that passeth understanding.

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jail—also quietly: They have not been charged with crimes nor have their cases received diplo- matic or other public attention, though some have been beaten and tortured. So a climate of fear remains, as Christians in Afghanistan do not know what their enemies—either in or outside the government—will do next. The situation is serious enough that religious Quit e freedom advocates in Congress will formally address U.S. diplomats on it for at least a second time this month. Their letter will call it “particu- Diplomacy? larly troubling” since American taxpayers have poured billions in aid into Afghanistan to ensure, Christians aren’t the only ones who pay for in their words, “that the country is no longer an Afghanistan’s lack of religious freedom incubator for terrorist groups that can attack us, but rather a stable democratic society where fundamental freedoms are respected.” It will here are two ways we journalists digest and retell the warn Afghan leaders that the lawmakers “cannot often cruel and besetting news of this world: We wall off justify taxpayer dollars going to a government our hearts, perhaps hoping to leave a working passageway that allows the same restrictions on basic human for stuff that might somehow affect us personally; or we rights that existed under the Taliban.” let the bad stuff have its way. We may cope by distraction— The lack of religious freedom and the idea of submersing ourselves in cigarettes, booze, late-night quiet and semi-private diplomacy may be hard reruns, pet grooming, Facebook, shopping, model train to swallow for the families of young American collecting, or other. We may manage the horrors of life by men and women who are fighting in Afghanistan returning to the scene of the crime, or otherwise living and dying at a current rate of 1.3 per day. And it dangerously, or by looking to someone mighty enough to may turn out to be a disservice to Afghan save. Muslims who have lived for I never get my walls built high enough. I’m weak and decades under similar quiet want to indulge distracting habits when I tyranny. learn (as I did this week) of Christian Nameless workers overseas kidnapped, Muslims far ­tortured, and raped, so traumatized they were outnumber unable to speak once released. I the Afghan Christians in confess that looking to someone Kabul’s jails. We want equal Tmighty enough to save is some- protection under the law for times my last resort. The bad them, too. Yet all may actors of the world seem too remain there, if President wicked. But the persecuted Barack Obama and Secretary of Christians usually bring me up State Hillary Clinton, despite short, because they are living numerous communiqués, do not this battle I only write about; bring to bear the weight of their they have counted the cost of offices while Afghan officials—not name- following Christ and have less thugs—arrest Christians. A year from decided to go all the way. now it’s hard to know what weight they, So I return to the scene of the or others now involved in quiet diplomacy, crime, in this, another report will have in Afghanistan. on the state of religious free- Watchmen on the walls are unpopular figures. dom in Afghanistan. A number Yet the Lord sends them, like Ezekiel, with of people I respect and trust have trumpets when swords are unsheathed. And He asked me not to write on the topic, as they believe quiet diplomacy alone sends them to warn not only the seemingly may work, and they say they have evidence to back up that belief. innocent—but also those who are causing trouble, Since Afghan Christians were arrested over the summer after a nation- who might otherwise die in their iniquity A k r i

wide broadcast showed Muslim converts to Christianity being baptized, (Ezekiel 33:8). In the end it is not only persecuted e g

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several have been released. Several were escorted across the border to believers in Jesus Christ but everyone who r r i Pakistan to safety—hardly a long-term solution. But several remain in needs someone mighty enough to save. A e

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TALE OF TWO INDIAS: Work continues on one of the main Commonwealth Games arenas, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in New Delhi (Manish Swarup/AP); 26-month-old Ranbir suffers from severe malnutrition in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh ( Reinhard Krause/ Reuters/Landov).

OCTOBER 9, 2010 WORLD 35 Near the center of a traffic-packed circle in the streets of New Delhi, a neatly landscaped hill boasts bright green grass and shiny silver balls atop tall steel poles. Under a nearby overpass, rows of bare feet and small children peek out of tattered tarps and makeshift tents, settling in for nightfall.

It’s a tale of two Indias packed into one city. Landscape Those delays may have contributed to another crisis: an and construction projects mark the capital city’s massive outbreak of dengue fever in New Delhi. The chairman of the effort to prepare for the upcoming Commonwealth Games— city’s health committee said construction delays left large an Olympic-style athletic event set for Oct. 3-14 that could holes in the ground that became breeding grounds for draw as many as 10,000 athletes and 500,000 spectators ­mosquitoes carrying the virus from 54 nations and territories once under British rule. It’s that has infected at least 1,500 REALITY CHECK: Special the first time that India has hosted the event, and only the people in the city this year. transit lanes are created second time that the games—held every four years since Private doctors say the infec- (below) for the games; landscapers install plants 1950—have come to Asia. For Indian officials, it’s a high-­ tion rate is likely much higher. (bottom) outside Jawaharlal profile opportunity for the developing nation to impress the Even if organizers manage Nehru Stadium; workmen developed world. to complete the major projects fumigate for dengue fever. But a series of game-related debacles—and the city’s massive population of poverty- stricken residents—betray a nationwide ­reality that impressive sports stadiums can’t erase: In its sprint toward modernity, India continues to leave masses of needy citizens at the starting line. Though a handful of Indian politicians appear poised to offer more government handouts by raising the official poverty line, those efforts won’t solve long-term, entrenched problems that have left nearly 40 percent of the country’s 1 billion citizens ­living on less than $1.25 a day. For poverty- stricken Indians to capture a taste of the country’s rapidly growing economy, the best opportunities may be efforts that allow the poor to become more productive, instead of more dependent.

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36 WORLD O CTOBER 9, 2010 on time, the city’s problems STRIKING run far deeper than game- CONTRASTS: Upscale retail related troubles. Striking centers (above) contrasts between a growing attract shoppers economy and a desperate in New Delhi; a population are everywhere: child lies on his cardboard bed in On the south side of the a garbage- Delhi metropolitan district, strewn slum. elaborate banners advertise luxury condos: “Expandable AN to p : b independent villas.” Another sign beckons: r i

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But directly across the street, another reality g e s • • s blares: Handfuls of families have become squatters in a half- shaws, bicycles, mopeds, and buses scrambling for inches of b o finished building. With no outer wall, a passerby can watch space in ill-defined lanes—street children roam between ttom: T E family life in progress in the exposed rooms: a woman hang- vehicles at stoplights. N GK U

ing ragged towels on a clothesline, a man sleeping on a thin The begging lasts into the night: At one major intersection, BA H A

mat, children playing in a corner near a broken chair. a little girl, perhaps 5 years old, wanders alone down a busy R / Similar dynamics plague other major cities. Huge billboards median in steady rain, wearing a tattered dress and a gaunt Im AFP/Getty for Samsung phones, LG flat screen televisions, and HP face. She goes from car to car, feebly tapping on windows and

­laptops line the streets in Hyderabad, a technology center in holding an outstretched hand. a g e central India. On the same streets—packed with cars, rick- As in other developing countries, poverty hits children s

38 WORLD O CTOBER 9, 2010 particularly hard: Nearly half of Indian children under the The same is true for Sujin, an elderly member of the age of 3 are malnourished. In Delhi, estimates of the number church. The 80-year-old man has slept in the one-room of street children range from 100,000 to 500,000. church building for five years, where church members share So while the overall economy may be surging, India’s their food with him. The widower is unable to perform the ­government planning commission raised its estimate of the labor-intensive jobs that once sustained him, and his only country’s poverty rate in April from 27.5 percent to 37.2 son refuses to care for him. He hasn’t received government ­percent—an increase of nearly 100 million people. That help, but he has found material aid at the church, along with ­number could rise next year as officials tabulate results of the spiritual renewal. country’s census, and some experts believe the rate already is The church’s care for members like Renu and Sujin (not much higher. their real names, but used to protect Officials will likely conduct a sepa- their safety and livelihoods) isn’t rate survey of rural areas next year to rooted in handouts. Through the gauge poverty. Past surveys have ­assistance of the Dallas-based mission included a point system. For example, group Gospel for Asia (GFA), the a family scores zero points if they go to church leadership is offering some of the bathroom in the open. They earn its poorest members opportunities to four points if they use a private latrine. become financially productive. Electricity, running water, a telephone, GFA helped the church supply Renu and a concrete foundation all raise a with a sewing machine that she uses family’s point level—and deems them for local tailoring jobs. She also less poor in the eyes of the state. teaches sewing to other women in the Those scores are used to determine village. Most weeks she earns more who is eligible for government aid, than twice the income she once usually in the form of a ration card earned at inconsistent day jobs. used for obtaining rice and kerosene. The church gave Sujin a mobile, Some government officials have coin-operated phone that he carries ­created national fanfare by proposing through the village each day. With that the state add 100 million families to the many residents living without landlines or subsidy rolls next year. cell phones, he has plenty of customers, and But that plan could be fraught with prob- he makes enough cash to buy toiletries and lems and do little to address entrenched other small items at the end of the month. ­poverty: In the past, the government has White-haired with intense eyes, Sujin capped the number of ration cards it distrib- cradles the bright yellow box as he explains utes, meaning many families already are left how the phone works, clearly grateful for the out. Others say families who don’t need the chance to work. But mostly the former Hindu cards still obtain them through bribes to local seems thankful for the spiritual opportunities officials. And government officials estimate he’s found at the church. “Until five years that as much as one-third of the grain they ago, I was living in idol worship, and nobody buy to distribute to the poor is stolen before cared for me,” he said. “But now I am free it reaches its destination. because of Jesus Christ.” GFA, like many other Christian organiza- o r some of India’s poorest population, tions, helps churches with similar labor- ration cards are moot. For example, based projects all over India and also focuses Renu, a single woman I met living in a on another root problem of poverty: lack of rural village in central India, would earn education and literacy. The group helps local few “points” for owning any assets: Her FINANCIALLY PRODUCTIVE: churches establish projects called Bridge of Renu (top) and Sujin. Fone-room house has no electricity and no Hope centers in poor communities to provide running water. She cooks with firewood and tutoring and meals to thousands of children uses an open latrine behind her house. But Renu doesn’t get a across the country. ration card. The only help she receives comes from a small, That’s a major boon for many families, particularly ones evangelical church tucked away on a side street in the from lower castes. Hinduism—India’s predominant religion— ­predominantly Hindu village. The congregation—made up of dictates a caste system that assigns social standing based on other poor, rural families—began helping Renu when her birth. The poorest Indians usually comprise the Dalits, or the

d ­husband abandoned her after the death of their young son “untouchables.” l r o w several years ago. Renu has lived alone ever since. Her pastor Though the influence of the caste system is waning in some r o f

n says Renu’s single status since her abandonment makes it parts of India, particularly in the south, it remains strong in a e d

e more difficult to get a ration card, since she doesn’t have a many areas. In one largely Dalit neighborhood in Delhi, signs i m ja family to support. of poverty are everywhere, including open sewage running

OCTOBER 9, 2010 WORLD 39 gso pel for asia Email: [email protected] and helps to build the church and helps to build not destroyed not destroyed —J.D.

­temple and trying to force him to worship other gods. He The pastor in central India says persecution hasn’t hampered K.P. Yohannan, who is Indian and the president of the Dallas- Yohannan says that extremists often oppress Christians to The evangelical pastor—who asked to remain anonymous to The evangelical pastor—who asked to remain in media Accounts of persecution in India ebb and flow areas, pastors The pastor from central India says in some three times Another church leader says he escaped beatings on’t get an email or a telephone call to the extent that somebody somebody that extent the to call telephone a or email an get on’t Persecution is ongoing, say Indian pastors, Persecution is ­biggest threat to the people in power.” the growth of the church there. “The church has grown the most since the persecutions,” he says. “Persecution builds the church.” refused. based Gospel for Asia, says persecution is “a way of life” for many Christians in India: “There is not a day that goes by that I d has been beaten up.” wield power, especially over the lowest castes. “A Dalit who would live as a Dalit is always convinced in himself that he is less liberates faith Christian the “But says. he value,” in animal an than him—he is equal in value, he is a child of God. And that is the One church leader in central India has a chilling way of describing One church leader in central India has a chilling for many Christians the persecution he says is a constant reality the from us catch to try “They nation: Hindu predominantly the in water.” often are Christians that safety—says his and ministry his protect pastors. “I know targets on the day of their baptism. So are their he says. one pastor who was jailed seven years for baptizing,” reality. reports, but Christians in India say it’s an ongoing take different conduct baptisms in secret: Church members to witness routes to rendezvous at predetermined locations don’t always work. baptisms of new Christians. But precautions sometimes And extremists who want to persecute Christians and pray for a lure pastors into harm by asking them to come least three minis- relative or speak with them about Christ. At says, were ters who have gone to such meetings, the pastor discovered dead a few days later. village. And in reaction to his becoming a Christian in a remote him into a another pastor endured a group of radicals carrying Hindu - A and education are chipping away at y CTOBER 9, 2010 O

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Inside a nearby Bridge of Hope center, nearly 100 ele- Bridge of Hope Inside a nearby sci- learning math, also spend the afternoon The children opportunities beyond the Education is key to finding also have trouble providing food for Many of the parents That means the government may waste enough grain to Meanwhile, plans for menus at the Commonwealth The Indian government guarantees farmers a set price The Indian government guarantees farmers A painful example came in August: Government officials A painful example came in August: Government f deep-rooted poverty, experts say that the government deep-rooted poverty, experts say that the the poor to should foster an economy that encourages develop and thrive. 40 through the rutted, dirt roads, and heaps of trash burning on burning heaps of trash and dirt roads, the rutted, through street corners. they are not untouchable, children learn that mentary-age sign sit under a hand-painted Bible verses and as they recite come to Me.” said, Let the children reading: “Jesus English. A social worker ence, reading, and conversational children gain entrance at the center helps neighborhood sometimes turn away Dalit children. into local schools that Christian schools, if possible. She helps others attend many in grinding poverty, and the menial jobs that keep says parents are eager for their children young social worker names.” their write even can’t parents the of “Many learn: to has brought a steep climb in food their families: Inflation scrambling. At the end of one prices and has left many children sat in full recent afternoon at the New Delhi center, deep, silver dishes classrooms, scooping rice and beans from meal they’ll eat before going home. For some, it’s the only all day. bles, fruit, cheeses, nuts, yogurt, and salad. The Times of India reported that the central kitchen is set to serve up to 30,000 meals a day. for grain and encourages farmers to sell their grain to the for grain and encourages farmers to sell their ­government. When government officials took in a surplus of grain this year, they sent it to the market. But they also overpriced the grain, so it didn’t sell. Exporting wasn’t an option because the government banned such exports in 2007. feed 140 million people for a month in a country with a 40 percent poverty rate. The Indian Supreme Court has tried to intervene, ordering government officials to release some of the grain to the poor. It’s unclear how much food will reach poor populations in time to avoid vast waste. Games are robust: Officials promise to offer food from all over the world, including a variety of fish, chicken, vegeta metric tons were in similar danger. The reason: layers of ­metric tons were in similar danger. The government intervention in markets.

increasing government intervention in markets has done increasing government intervention in markets nearly two decades more harm than good to the poor. After create more of reform that helped free up markets and is reversing opportunity, Scissors says the government sector aside because course: “The state is shoving the private it wants to do more and more and more.” some 67,000 in New Delhi admitted that they had allowed 17 million metric tons of grain to rot, and that another

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Who provides financial Christian Aid is assisting more than 100 Africa mis- assistance for the indge- sions. Their hundreds of missionaries are effectively, Q. nous missions of Africa? A. efficiently reaching their own people with the gospel.

Q. How is Christian Aid financed? For more than 50 years Christian Aid Mission has been A. Christian Aid is supported entirely by sending financial help to indigenous evangelistic ministries freewill gifts and offerings from Bible- based in unevangelized countries. Currently more than believing, missionary-minded Christians, 700 such ministries are being assisted in Asia, Africa, Latin churches and organizations. America and Eastern Europe. They deploy more than 75,000 native missionaries which are spreading the gospel of Christ Q. Do indigenous missions in other among unreached people within more than 3000 different countries also need our financial help? tribes and nations. A. Christian Aid is in communication with Christian Aid Mission more than 4000 indigenous missions, some P. O. Box 9037 based in almost every unevangelized coun- Christian Charlottesville, VA 22906 try on earth. They have over 200,000 mis- . . . because we love the brethren. Aid 434-977-5650 sionaries in need of support. All Christians www.christianaid.org who believe in Christ’s “Great Commission” are invited to join hands with Christian Aid When you contact Christian Aid, ask in finding help for thousands of native mis- for a free copy of Dr. Bob Finley’s sionaries who are now out on the fields of book, THE FUTURE OF FOREIGN the world with no promise of regular finan- MISSIONS. 58:060 AD-WRQA cial support. 2 0 1 0 e lection Red November? R epublicans need to gain 10 seats to take control of the Senate. It’s a daunting task, but energized Republicans, dispirited Democrats, and deficit- wary independents are putting Democratic- held seats in unexpected jeopardy by Ed ward Lee Pitts in South Bend, Ind., Deerfield, Ill., and Stevens Point, Wis.

t is not surprising that you’d find an Irish pub in ­senator turned lobbyist, does not fit the antiestablishment South Bend, Ind., just down the road from the mold now favored by many conservatives. Fighting Irish at the University of Notre Dame. But it Pastor Wallace, 40, professes that even his wife doesn’t know is somewhat unique that Peter Wallace turns one his pick for president in 2008. But he believes that “having an ­corner of the Fiddler’s Hearth into his pastoral office African-American in the White House is a good thing for this for a weekly “Pastor in the Pub” session. country.” He also says that the current Democratic majority’s Wallace, who leads the city’s Michiana Covenant agenda in Washington is giving the country a “chance to see Presbyterian Church (PCA), holds informal office what liberalism really is. Then Americans can decide if this is hours here for four hours every Tuesday. Anyone is welcome— what we really want.” you don’t have to be a church member. Wallace believes that Wallace is still quick to warn his Fiddler’s Hearth flock I“a little bit of beer helps the lessons go down.” against putting too much faith in government. “This is not what The pastor admits that sometimes it doesn’t take more than should drive our lives,” he said. a pint or two of ale before the pub discussions turn political— Between sips of his drink, Wallace, whose full black beard especially this year with an open Senate seat in Indiana that and glasses highlight his professorial air, likes to recount what may switch from Democrat to Republican. happened last year when unemployment hit about 15 percent With a major university nearby, South Bend residents tend in his 125-member congregation. to be Democrats. But that doesn’t keep frustration from run- The church came together. Members provided odd jobs that ning high. Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., blamed partisan politics gave the unemployed the dignity of work. A deacon’s fund for when he shocked state voters by announcing his retirement in the unemployed reached six figures. February. “This is what it means to be part of the body rth L E L S

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Republican opponent, Dan Coats. This despite the heading West. Next stop: President Obama’s s /AP fact that Coats, a former House member and a home turf.

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Through five states in two days I had not Obama’s old seat, state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, has a track run into many Americans with pleasant things to say about record that raises eyebrows in the current economic climate. Washington. Federal regulators last spring seized his family-owned bank While setting up the itinerary for the trip, I where Giannoulias once worked as a loan officer. purposely had not asked the party affiliation of His opponent, Rep. Mark Kirk, who is leaving the the individuals I wanted to visit. And yet 10th Congressional District seat he has held for 10 people from Pennsylvania to Indiana had years, is better funded. But Kirk’s early lead has mostly complaints about Washington’s dwindled to a dead heat after he had to apologize current majority party (though they are for misstating his military record. not too happy with Republicans either). “This is normally a Democratic state,” admitted But entering Illinois, I thought I just Kirk at a Labor Day rally, according to the Chicago might run into some true blue state Sun Times. “But we’ve won the grass-roots war. devotees. We’ve won the fund-raising war and now it’s Evan Kane, 41, a Democrat from Deerfield, Ill., time to win the final battle. This is clearly our u GIANN spent the last two election cycles helping out his year.” O

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Kane believes it doesn’t really matter who gets been able to get our message to connect with n / elected. The results, he said, are the same: the people.” AP disappointment. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have failed to strike a chord “This was the time we could have had real social change,” with middle America. Meanwhile Republicans have Kane, a real estate broker, told me. Kane said the new health- succeeded in making their arguments against bigger care law, among other things, did not go far enough. He government the main national narrative heading wanted a public option. “We were expecting another FDR. But into this year’s elections. it is FDR talk with no FDR results.” She is worried that disheartened voters like Kane Federal policies have not helped Kane’s clients avoid fore- will stay home this November. She said her homo- closures or get needed bank loans. “There is a PR campaign sexual friends are angry because Democrats have about how things are going so well,” Kane said after an area not ended the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” Chamber of Commerce breakfast. “But they are not. None of ­policy. Other friends in the Hispanic community are the problems are actually getting solved.” upset because the immigration debate took a back His frustration with Washington sounded very similar to the seat to healthcare the last two years. conservative anger I’d encountered in other states. Both “Democrats are a rowdy group,” said Rudy. She groups seem fed up with the cast of characters making up the worries that too many Democrats “are solely focused political status quo. But Kane’s disgust has its roots in his belief on their individual passion. It could end up hurting that Democrats have under-reached, not overreached. “I really the party by dividing ourselves.” thought he would be able to deliver,” Kane said, referring to She thinks Democrats can only be reenergized Obama. “Or did he just say those things to get elected? At the and reunified when Obama uses the bully pulpit of end of the day, nothing has really changed.” the presidency the next few weeks to highlight what This fall Kane is remaining on the political sidelines. And he is at stake this November. That is the same conclusion said he is not alone among liberals in his community: “More many top Democrats have reached: Obama plans four and more people are beginning to think that if you put the best big rallies this fall to try to recapture the 2008 magic. man in office the system will corrupt him.” One of his first stops will be Sept. 28 in Wisconsin, Such dispirited sentiments from Democrats in a state where which also happens to be where I am headed next. Democrats hold every statewide office have Republicans eyeing a treasured bounty this November: the Senate seat once held by Obama. Wisconsinite John Jury remembers Nationally, the Democratic Party’s favorable rating dropped being asked by friends on the streets of Stevens Point to a low of 33 percent in August. Obama won the White House earlier this year to sign a petition in favor of the partly due to large turnout among Democrats combined with a healthcare overhaul. The political independent’s frustrated Republican Party. Now the roles may have reversed: refusal to do so left puzzled looks on his friends’ faces. Deep Democratic discontent may keep liberals home on Stevens Point—a city located in almost the exact Election Day in 2010. center of the state—began as a supply camp for loggers It doesn’t help the Democrats that their nominee for sending white pines down the Wisconsin River.

44 WORLD O C T O B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 Today it is the seat of Portage County, a Russ Feingold, the state’s three-term Democratic place where, according to Jury, “if you don’t senator who won by 12 points in 2004, now finds run as a Democrat you aren’t going to win.” himself deadlocked in his race for a fourth term That is, he adds, until now. against wealthy businessman and political novice Everyone knows that Wisconsinites like Ron Johnson. Johnson has poured $4 million of his o c s their beer and brats. People here are also own money into the race. After labeling the race aba c quick to use one word to describe them- “solid Democrat” at the start of the year, the il g r e

v selves: frugal. “The only thing better than Washington-based Cook Political Report is now ry: u j cheap here is free,” explained the 63-year-old calling the race a “toss-up.” Jury. “I am you,” Johnson likes to say on the h/AP • s a Jury, a long-time administrator at the campaign trail, highlighting his political rry G o University of Wisconsin’s local branch in Stevens inexperience. M

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s nation in rankings compiled by Forbes.com, includ- Congressional District includes Stevens Point. n o M ing a debt per capita of $1,429 and unfunded pensions Obey has been in Congress since 1969. “He z e n i t per capita of $16,418. sensed it was going to be much more of a horse race r a M

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P Wisconsin voters, who fell hard for Obama in 2008, are sud- As an independent, Jury is the type of voter who can make : l o denly making life difficult for their veteran lawmakers. “This or break an election for either party. Dissatisfied with i e f ngd spending has got to stop,” Jury said. President George W. Bush’s foreign policy and John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, Jury went for Obama. Voters like Jury helped Obama win the independent vote, which made up almost 30 percent of the electorate, by 8 percentage points in 2008. But independents’ disapproval of Obama has reached an all-time high of 57 percent in a September ABC “I don’t News poll. By a 13-point margin, think it independents said they would vote has gone for Republican candidates this as well as year. When asked if people he is now feeling voter’s remorse, would Jury is quick to reply: “Oh yeah. I have don’t think it has hoped.” gone as well as people would have —J ohn Jury hoped.” Why? “I have a trillion point four reasons,” Jury replied, alluding to the federal budget deficit, which hit a record $1.4 trillion last year. “There has been a realignment. People around here are getting used to living on a little less,” said Jury, adding that it is time for the government in Washington to learn how to do the same. A

O C T B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 WORLD 45 OnThe Supreme Court takesthe on “ Oyez, oyez, oyez!” docket The Marshal of the Supreme Arizona immigration hiring laws, Court will shout that tradi- the legality of school choice tional declaration to begin the session of the high court initiatives, and prisoners’ on Oct. 4 as all the justices file into the courtroom. The religious liberty rights high court has agreed to by Emily Belz hear about 40 cases to this point, and it will likely take on another 40 for the term that runs from October to May. This year the court has a new member following Justice John Paul Stevens’ retirement. Justice Elena Kagan, before she joined the high court, served as U.S. Solicitor General and thus was involved in a number of cases that the court will hear this term. She has recused herself from 21 cases, about half the cases scheduled so far. Here are some of the most important cases before the court:

46 46WORLD WORLD O C TOOCTOBERB E R 9 , 29, 0 12010 0 The infamous Westboro Baptist country donated money to Synder. A Facebook group titled “I On the docketSnyder v. Phelps Church (not affiliated with any support Al Snyder and his fight against Westboro Baptist mainline Baptist denomination) Church” has 362,687 members. Forty-two senators have filed headed by Fred Phelps Sr. and composed of his family, is in Supreme Court briefs in support of Snyder, as have 48 states, the dock over its right to protest at funerals. Phelps and other but media organizations including the Associated Press and family members are known for appearing at funerals for fallen The New York Times and groups like the American Civil soldiers with signs like “Thank God for dead soldiers.” The Liberties Union have filed briefs in support of Phelps’ case. The Supreme Court will decide court will hear arguments in the case on Oct. 6. whether that is protected speech and whether In 2006 Texas inmate funeral protests constitute Sossamon v. Texas Harvey Sossamon sued the an invasion of privacy. state and his prison warden Albert Snyder, the father of for violating his religious freedom because he was not allowed fallen Marine Lance Cpl. to use the prison chapel. The Religious Land Use and Matthew Snyder, sued Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 provides protection for Phelps and his church for inmates to practice their faith, and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court protesting at his son’s of Appeals ruled that the state had violated that law in pre- funeral with signs like venting Sossamon from using the chapel for Christian worship. “Matt in hell.” The 4th U.S. But the court also ruled that the state was not responsible to Circuit Court of Appeals in pay Sossamon damages. The high court will decide whether April ruled in favor of states are liable for damages in such cases. Prison Fellowship, in Phelps, and ordered a brief in support of Sossamon, wrote that allowing prisoners Snyder to pay Phelps’ legal to sue for actual damages “appropriately recognizes the harm costs, $16,510. The ruling of not only contravening a fundamental right to exercise hasn’t found popular sup- ­religion but also the harm of cutting inmates off from the port. People across the resources and relationships they need to transform their lives.” The National Association of Evangelicals, The Christian Legal that no religion is promoted because the tax credits are equally Society, and other Christian groups have filed briefs in support available and parents can choose where to spend them, at reli- of the prisoner. The U.S. government also filed a brief in sup- gious or nonreligious schools. The program has been in place port of Sossamon, which is why Kagan, who used to represent since 1997. Last year 27,582 students benefited from the credit, the government, recused herself from this case. The court will attending 370 private­ schools. About 270 of them had some hear the arguments on Nov. 2. kind of religious affiliation. The Supreme Court will decide whether the constitution Arizona has a school allows such a program, determining the direction of other Arizona Christian choice program that is states like New Jersey considering such an approach. Already School Tuition v. Winn becoming an increasingly Georgia, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, popular alternative to Rhode Island, and Florida offer some form of tuition tax direct vouchers: the state provides $500 tuition tax credits for ­credits. Tuition tax credits have more bipartisan support than individuals ($1,000 for married couples) who contribute to vouchers. The court will hear arguments for the case on Nov. 3. state-approved school tuition nonprofits of their choice. The tuition nonprofits then provide private school scholarships to Much of the debate over families. The government is essentially providing matching U.S. Chamber of the new immigration law funds in the form of tax credits for parents paying private ­Commerce v. Whiting in Arizona stems from school tuition. the question of whether The 9th Circuit the Arizona law may trump federal law. A case coming before U.S. Court of the Supreme Court this term could set the table for whether Appeals ruled states can create immigration laws that preempt ­federal laws. that the In 2008 Arizona passed a law imposing sanctions on employ- ­program ers who hire illegal immigrants and required that employers ­violates the check the immigration status of potential hires in a federal Establishment database. According to federal law, however, employers can Clause because choose whether to check the database. In U.S. Chamber of it funds reli- Commerce v. Whiting, the high court will decide whether gious schools, Arizona has the right to make a law that goes beyond federal but the pro- hiring statutes. gram’s advo- CHOICE: Esteban Morales attends Tucson’s Turning Kagan has also recused herself from this case. The court cates argue Point School with special help from Arizona taxpayers. hasn’t set a date for arguments. A

But critics and supporters of the current system don’t fall along partisan lines. Bench politics Abolishing judicial elections has become a mission for retired Supreme Court Justice Spending in campaigns to elect judges at But supporters of judicial elections say Sandra Day O’Connor, who started her ( p r

state levels has more than doubled in the such commissions would be just as politi- career as a state judge in Arizona before e v i o

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million into judicial races in the last tions even though he lost his in 2008 after One drawback to judicial elections that o urt: Lou urt: decade, compared to $83 million in the a decade of service on the court. While Taylor recognizes is that a judge’s deci- i previous one, according the report by judicial elections aren’t “flawless,” he says sions can be quickly distorted to political e P al

the Brennan Center for Justice, Justice they are a better alternative to the com- ends. For example, a ruling in favor of a u /Z U at Stake, and the National Institute on mission model, which he believes isn’t criminal defendant, regardless of the M A Press • s • Press Money in State Politics. More than a truly based on merit. “It’s all very subjec- nuances of the case, can make the judge

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H ouse GOP leaders make a public promise to limit government if they return to power as both parties scramble toward November by Edward Lee Pitts in Sterling, Va.

oping to go back to the future, congressional Republicans on Sept. 23 rolled out their legisla- tive agenda six weeks ahead of this November’s mid-term elections. Today’s GOP is hoping to repeat the election success of its 1994 forebears. HThat crop of Republican leaders won the House for the first time in four decades, gaining 54 House seats after promoting a “Contract with America” on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. This time conservative lawmakers unveiled “A Pledge to of constitutional legitimacy and that legislation be available for America” in front of a suburban Virginia hardware store. The examination by the public at least three days before any con- backdrop was appropriate because Republican lawmakers have gressional vote. Republicans also pledge to hold weekly floor work to do in dropping their “party of no” moniker. More suc- votes on eliminating programs that online voters choose for the cessful the last two years in blocking parts of the Democratic chopping block in the GOP’s “YouCut” program. agenda then touting their own ideas, Republicans must assure Many of the proposals aren’t new, such as permanently voters that they will not return to the free-spending ways they extending all the 2001 Bush tax cuts and attacking healthcare showed while leading Congress. Even as Democrats continue costs by both enacting medical liability reform and allowing for to get bad marks in the polls, voters haven’t given Republicans the purchase of insurance policies across state lines. passing grades either. An internal debate focused on how prominent a place to At the Tart Lumber Company in Sterling, Va., Republicans give social issues. In the feedback gathered, voters listed “life” said they based their new priorities on voter feedback gathered as their third concern after spending and jobs. The document at town hall meetings and through the party’s America briefly affirms a pledge to honor traditional marriage and to Speaking Out social networking website. Not surprisingly, oppose taxpayer-funded abortions, but the bulk of its details economic issues topped all concerns from the more than are devoted to the economy and the federal budget. 160,000 ideas and 1 million comments gathered by the project. After making his “Pledge to America,” House Minority The plan hits on five broad areas of concern: jobs, spending, Leader John Boehner of Ohio walked across the street to min- congressional reform, healthcare, and national security. gle with the flag-waving crowd that had gathered to chant Proposals include nods to the Tea Party’s focus on constitu- “stop the spending now” outside this Virginia hardware store. tional government: a requirement that bills include a certification When presented with a metal teapot, Boehner said he would

50 WORLD O C T O B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 backohe t t future: Boehner makes the case for Republican agenda.

keep it as a souvenir. “I hope it’s a lucky charm,” said 52-year- ment allowing military facilities to perform abortions at old Ken Reid of Leesburg, Va. taxpayers’ expense. The crowd was pleased with the pledge, chanting “Thank But every Republican and two Arkansas Democrats, you, Speaker Boehner” as Boehner left to return to Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, voted to defeat a procedural Washington. Robin Lillis, 48, of Ashburn, Va., said this is the vote to begin debate on the measure. most eager she has been about voting since she supported “Now is not the time to play politics simply because an Ronald Reagan in 1980 as an 18-year-old: “I’m so excited about ­election is looming in a few weeks,” said Sen. Susan Collins, a the opportunity to be heard again.” moderate Maine Republican who has long been counted as a supporter of the DADT repeal. But in withholding her support, While social issues Collins may have been looking ahead to her own reelection in Socially secure may not be driving 2014. Despite winning more than 61 percent of the vote in the ballot this cycle, they are still playing prominent roles in 2008, Collins has likely noted that conservative candidates Congress. Senate Republicans on Sept. 21 blocked the political have toppled many of her moderate Republican colleagues. left’s push to impose on the military open homosexuality and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and other s e

g taxpayer-funded abortions. Democrats pressed ahead on these provisions despite military a In an effort to energize their liberal voting base, Senate opposition. More than 200 military physicians signed a letter to Democrats tacked those controversial priorities onto a bill Congress opposing the abortion provision, while 66 top-ranked

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O a repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy bar- In the days before the vote, President Obama’s choice to L U A S E L ring gays from openly serving in the military and an amend- head the Marine Corps, Gen. James Amos, testified before a

O C T B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 WORLD 51 maine attraction: Lady Gaga stumps for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (above); Pence at the 2010 Values Voters Summit (center); Boehner with his teapot (far right).

Senate committee that changing the policy on gays would hurt The House hasn’t adjourned before Sept. 30 in an election military morale and hinder combat efforts in Afghanistan. In year since 1960. And it is in danger of leaving before passing the end, senators backed the general over pop star Lady Gaga, either annual appropriations bills to fund the government or an who headlined a Maine event supporting the repeal a day annual budget blueprint. before the vote. “Our new law is called, ‘If you don’t like it, go With the expiring 2001 Bush tax cuts the only major item left home,’” Gaga told the crowd. on the agenda, discussing possible tax hikes is the last thing “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apparently doesn’t vulnerable Democrats want to vote on this close to facing voters. realize that if everyone with traditional values leaves the mili- But heading home has its risks, too: Democrats may be more tary, virtually no one will be left to defend our country. reluctant after seeing what happened to Obama at a Sept. 20 town Certainly not Lady Gaga,” said the Family hall meeting in Philadelphia. There Obama supporter Research Council’s Tony Perkins. Velma Hart gave the president a taste of frustra- Tucked in the bill also was legislation tion the likes of which he probably rarely called the Dream Act, which would GOPdge Ple faced in his 2008 campaign rallies. have allowed children of illegal to America “Quite frankly, I’m exhausted,” ­immigrants to access federal i Permanently extend all the Bush began the African-American vet- loans to attend ­college and put tax cuts and introduce a 20 percent small eran who now works as a financial them on a path to citizenship if business tax deduction officer. “I’m exhausted of they enroll in college or join i Repeal and replace healthcare law with medical defending you, defending your the military. The legislation liability reform and allow for the purchase of administration, defending the became a political football in insurance policies across state lines mantle of change that I voted the tight Nevada Senate i Cancel the remaining expenditures in the stimulus program for, and deeply disappointed race—Senate Majority Leader i Return domestic appropriations to 2008 levels with where we are right now. I Harry Reid put the measure i Freeze federal hiring for non-security jobs have been told that I voted for in the defense bill partly as a i a man who said he was going to Phase out government control of Fannie Mae e J AGA g way to reach out to Hispanic and Freddie Mac change things in a meaningful : voters in his state. His way for the middle class. I’m one O

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179-09 8x10.5.r1.indd 1 6/8/09 9:28:32 PM PollingPolling forfor chaoschaos Opponents of President Hamid Karzai are poised to capitalize on his government’s inability to conduct fraud-free elections by Mindy Belz fghanistan’s parliamentary elections ­turnout has steadily dropped—from a high of 7.4 million in the had “high degree of difficulty” written all 2004 presidential elections to a low of 3.6 million estimated to over them long before they got underway have voted on Sept. 18 (nearly 5 million voted in the 2009 presi- last month. All summer campaign dential election). Those results are discouraging, especially given ­billboards lined the main boulevards that the IEC is under new leadership and additional scrutiny in Kabul, as over 2,500 candidates following fraudulent activities that accompanied the 2009 competed for 249 seats in the presidential election. “One of the main lessons,” said Bijlert, ­country’s National Assembly. “is that observer missions and the media stop paying attention Political posters dominated too soon, as the manipulation takes place until the very end.” main intersections in key cities, But some analysts argue that the level of cheating is part of featuring large photos of candidates and their assigned number, the process of growing a more democratic government. “These which turned out to be crucial in sorting out so large a field. campaigns and the election are not simply about winning and And for an electorate that is nearly three-fourths illiterate, losing, but serve as an opportunity for individuals and groups there were simplified symbols—three neckties for one candi- to increase their political capital and, perhaps, in some places, date, two pairs of shoes for another—as a kind of hieroglyphic to redefine the balance of power,” said Noah Coburn in a report system repeated on ballots on election day. The symbols issued by the Kabul-based independent monitoring group, allowed those who can’t read to find their man—or woman. Afghanistan Evaluation and Research Unit. Those shifts also A record 386 women ran for office. reflect frustration that the National Assembly has to win per- Election logistics in Afghanistan are daunting under any mission to act from President Hamid Karzai. As one member of circumstance. Ballots had to be loaded on donkeys to reach parliament told Coburn’s group, “We should be monitoring the remote villages. Fatalities and roadside bomb attacks (directed government but the government does not accept this, and does at coalition and Afghan forces as well as Afghan civilians) are at not allow us to take on this role.” their highest level since war began in 2001: One in six voting Challenging Karzai openly is one way for so-called conserva- stations was closed due to violence. Rocket attacks and tive Islamic candidates to increase their influence—and possibly ­bombings marred Sept. 18’s election day itself, with at least 21 their numbers—in parliament. One such parliamentary candidate civilians and nine police officers killed. is Nasto Nadiri. A 27-year-old television host on the nationwide But the extensive field of candidates—plus distrust stemming network Noorin TV, he is seemingly emblematic of Afghanistan’s from last year’s contested and fraud-riddled presidential emerging press freedom. Yet Nadiri has used his popularity to ­election—fed problems that will make certifying results demand a rollback of individual freedoms and a return to Islamic ­difficult. At least one candidate had fake ballots printed in law. His show, called Sarzamin-E-Man or My Homeland, broad- neighboring Pakistan. And the owner of a printing house in cast footage of Afghan converts being baptized in late May. It Peshawar told Radio Free Europe that several candidates was replayed for consecutive days, triggering calls for the arrest ­submitted orders to him for phony voter registration cards and punishment of converts to Christianity, and Nadiri urged stretching back months before the election. Afghans to turn in to authorities names of anyone suspected of One independent watchdog group, Free and Fair Election conversion. That led to the arrest of Christians (see p. 32) and Foundation of Afghanistan, said it had received nearly 1,500 the suspension of two Christian aid organizations. It also led to complaints about irregularities, even as the government’s an investigation of at least 14 other NGOs and several dozen Independent Election Commission (IEC) prepared to release Afghans suspected of evangelizing Muslims. preliminary results on Sept. 23. Given the depth of investigations Noorin TV is funded by the Northern Alliance, which that requires, final results are not expected until the end of opposes the Karzai government, and its series on Christianity October. appeared designed to embarrass Karzai and his parliamentary “The votes have been counted at the polling center level, but majority for tolerating “Western” religion. In a similar fashion, not yet aggregated, and many counts will change as stations Nadiri broadcast a series of reports alleging that Afghanistan’s are investigated and quarantined,” Martine van Bijlert, co- growing number of women’s shelters is fostering prostitution. director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, told me two On air he called for the closure of 17 government-registered days after the elections. shelters serving about 1,500 Afghan women considered at risk. Bijlert said the IEC “is to their credit quite transparent” in its One cited shelter housed Bibi Aisha, the 18-year-old Afghan calculations of voter turnout. But the Sept. 18 turnout—estimated from Uruzgan province featured on the Aug. 9 cover of Time at 40 percent—begs the question: 40 percent of what? A fact magazine. Aisha’s husband together with other members of the sheet put out by the IEC after the vote read: “Calculating the local Taliban had sliced off her ears and nose after she ran away proportion of voters who cast a ballot remains a challenge for from her in-laws’ abusive treatment. electoral authorities in the absence of a voter register, a civil Nadiri called such shelters unauthorized, and he told his registry, or census statistics.” It acknowledged that the number of audience they are “not acceptable for our people, who have voter registration cards issued exceeded the estimated number fought 30 years to put the word Islam in front of Afghanistan.” s e g

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O C T B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 WORLD 55 Invisible dads Largely unregulated sperm banks and fertility clinics are producing thousands of donor-conceived children who long to know more about their fathers by Alisa Harris

lana’s first birth certificate said Hutcheson—the last name of a man who shared no biological link to her. Her second birth certificate said Stewart—the last A name of the man her mother married after divorcing the first. Neither birth certificate mentions her ­biological father—the man who donated the sperm to create her. Alana changed her name from Stewart to Sveta, a Polish-sounding name she adopted after she learned her donor dad was Polish, and then changed it back to Stewart to re-identify with the only family she knows. But it still gnaws at her that her birth certificate doesn’t acknowledge her ­biological dad, and she’ll never know his name. Stewart’s name changes reflect her search for Dere identity and a way to connect to the father she only k

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56 WORLD O C T O B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 Invisible dads year through sperm donation—the product of a $3.3 billion top of her class to the bottom and started a string of destructive ­fertility industry that does not have to keep strict records of relationships. She went through a man-hating phase and says births, reveal donor names, or regulate the number of children her lack of a secure male father figure has made her wrestle one sperm donor creates. For Stewart and other donor-­ with the idea of a paternal God. conceived children, never knowing their fathers has created a She has spent her adult life searching for a way to connect crisis of identity. with her donor dad and learn more of who she is in the pro- The study, released by the Commission on Parenthood’s cess. She says of her donor dad, “I view him as kind of like a Future, took a representative sample of 485 donor offspring, ghost and a fantastical figure, like how some people speak of comparing it with groups of adopted and biological children. It children that they want. . . . A person who doesn’t really exist found that donor-conceived children are more likely to but who is so very important to me.” The United States leaves express feelings of sadness about their conception and experi- sperm donation largely unregulated, so sperm banks and ence family break-up, depression, delinquency, and substance ­fertility clinics decide what they will ask donors to reveal. abuse. Forty-five percent of donor-conceived children say that Stewart only knows that her donor dad has blue eyes and the circumstances of their conception bother them. Sixty-five blond hair. He lived in L.A. He was a doctor and a scuba percent say that their donor is part of who they are. Nearly half instructor. He was 5-foot-9 and played the flute. He was Polish. feel sad when they see friends with biological parents and more When she found he was Polish, she traveled to Poland to than half say it hurts when others talk about their genealogical connect to that part of her heritage but was disappointed to background. find that it seemed so foreign: “Nothing echoed to me except The study also found that family breakdown is more com- for my physical appearance with the people.” The little girls mon in the families of donor offspring. Overall, 44 percent of had eyes and hair like hers, and the same crook in their noses, donor offspring experience “family transitions” (like divorce) she remembered: “Everything else was distant.” before the age of 16, compared to 22 percent of adopted children Wendy Kramer, co-founder of the Donor Sibling Registry, and 35 percent of those raised by biological parents. notes that “My Daddy’s Name is Donor” is not peer-reviewed Stewart said her own experience illustrates the family and said some of the findings are not consistent with what she knots that donor conception can create. She thinks the knows from interacting with donor-conceived people each ­circumstances of her conception—her mother having a child day. She founded the Donor Sibling Registry, a site that with another man’s sperm—made her mother’s first husband ­connects donor siblings, with her donor-conceived son Ryan see Stewart as “a symbol of what one man could do that he when he became curious about his identity. It’s true, she says, couldn’t do.” He favored Stewart’s adopted sister—the daugh- that donor-conceived offspring wonder where they came from ter who had a biological link to neither parent—over Stewart, and are curious about their unknown siblings. Ryan would say, the child who had a biological link to his wife but not to him. “I look in the mirror and I can see where half of me comes When he and Stewart’s mom divorced, he only asked for from. . . . There’s this invisible one-half of me.” ­custody of Stewart’s sister. But despite that invisible half, he still considers himself a “I don’t really consider anyone my father,” Stewart said—a complete person. Kramer was surprised by the revelation that situation that she says created insecurity and lack of trust. She donor-conceived children have higher rates of depression. She excelled at school until early adolescence, when questions of said parents should inform their donor-conceived children her identity began to beset her. Then she plummeted from the about their conception early: If a child learns about his donor

O C T B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 WORLD 57 Charting solutions “I view him NaPro technology can help some as kind of like couples who balk at in vitro fertilization

a ghost and When Karen Gaul turned 30, she finally had the house and the steady job she wanted before she pursued the a fantastical next dream—a baby. For the next three years, Gaul figure, like ­visited a fertility clinic, sought out a reproductive ­endocrinologist, tried an ovulation drug, and injected how some hormones into her stomach twice a day for a week every month. When doctors said that in vitro fertiliza- people speak tion (IVF) was the only option left, Gaul and her husband said they opposed the procedure and left. of children One in seven couples seek medical intervention to that they help them conceive and thousands turn to invasive options like IVF, a treatment that costs on average want. . . . $12,400 per four-week cycle. IVF doctors create embryos only to destroy the imperfect ones and freeze A person the leftovers. Gaul said the doctors became offended who doesn’t when she expressed objections: “They honestly believe that they’re just working with things, like working with really exist skin or working with bread.” Gaul, a Roman Catholic, was searching her diocese’s but who is website for an alternative when another parishioner directed her to the Gianna Center for Women, a New so very York City–based, Catholic clinic that uses a natural important approach to diagnose the cause of infertility—some- thing Gaul said her other doctors never did. Dr. Anne to me.” Mielnik, founder of the Gianna Center, uses NaPro Technology. She shows a chart where women note —Al ana Stewart their body’s signs of fertility each day. They use red dots during their period, green dots on other days, and baby stickers on the days when they’re fertile. After four months of charting, Mielnik searches the charts for conception later rather than earlier, it can create feelings of abnormalities, makes a diagnosis, and decides on a ­distrust and shame about his origins. treatment plan. A woman with a progesterone or “My Daddy’s Name is Donor” seems to confirm this: Forty- ­estrogen deficiency might take hormones and another four percent of donor-conceived children said that donor woman might simply take more Vitamin B6. After ­conception is fine for children as long as parents tell children the Gaul’s investigation phase, she discovered that she suf- truth early; 36 percent said that learning about donor conception fered from endometriosis, a sometimes symptomless can be hard, but telling the truth early makes it easier. Only 11 condition that can cause infertility, and she had surgery. percent said that it’s hard for children even when parents tell the In 2008, the Journal of the American Board of Family truth. Kramer said the donor community should listen to those Medicine published a peer-reviewed study that found who struggle with their origins, even if they’re a minority: NaPro Technology produced 52.8 live births per 100 “These are voices to be heard, but I don’t think they’re the only couples, a rate comparable to more invasive treat- voices.” ments like IVF. But treatment can take up to two years, Stewart, like 61 percent of the donor-conceived children in a drawback for women of an age when they are becom- Marquardt’s study, doesn’t oppose sperm donation; she just ing less likely to conceive. Over half of the study’s 1,200 opposes unregulated donation that leaves children with no couples withdrew after less than two years of knowledge of half of their heritage. Donation should be an treatment. ­altruistic act instead of a lucrative one, she says, and parents and Gaul, who has been at Gianna since November, said

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she landed 35 new accounts during the Fair. Those card orders are providing three months of steady work for the women in Peru. For J obs and hope Bateman it is all about jobs. She headed south in 2005 to volunteer at a mission in Trujillo, LIFESTYLE: It’s a rough time to start a small Peru. The following year she returned to the business, but Grace Bateman’s Peru United States and got her master’s degree in Peru Paper is a Paper is on the cusp of success. Peru international economic development, focusing greeting card >> Paper initially sold online its collection on the card-making project she thought business, not of greeting cards designed and crafted by would work. Peruvian women out of handmade, recycled Some of the fair attendees wanted to know a charity, and it’s paper. The next step was to wholesale cards to if she gives the profits of the business to helping women retailers across the United States, and that’s ­charity. Bateman was straightforward: No. in poverty why Bateman was standing at a booth at the She does not want to create a charity, because big New York International Gift Fair in August. goodwill won’t last forever. Instead, she plows b usany s olasky One afternoon at the fair, storeowners and profits back into the business, with the goal of ck

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how jobs can change the way women live and think. Jobs help them see an alternative reality to the existence they’ve known. Jobs help them believe truths about God that didn’t seem possible when surrounded by despair. She’s adept at using Facebook and Twitter to promote her ­products and tell the Ha e ring Faulkner MOTIVATED: Bateman (above) ­company story: “It’s Novelist William Faulkner and a Peruvian cardmaker. easy and free.” She can spent two semesters inform her 1,200 (February-June 1957 and she is frugal, Facebook fans about Peru Paper and let February-May 1958) as living with them vote on new card designs. She even her parents posts screen shots from Skype conversa- writer-in-residence at the and doing consulting tions with the card makers so that fans University of Virginia. More work on the side to pay her bills. get a sense of involvement with the than 28 hours of lectures, Peru Paper taps into a couple of current ­company. She offers the parable of the readings, and audience trends. Consumers love things that are talents to explain how she thinks about ­question-and-answer unique, handmade, eco-friendly, and help her ­business. The women in Peru are the ­sessions recorded during that alleviate poverty. Bateman’s marketing ­talents, “a treasure to be developed.” materials tell that story. But she also talks Bateman says she’s had a steep learn- period are now available online about the way the work changes individ- ing curve and on-the-job training. She at the Faulkner archives at the ual lives. One woman is more hospitable didn’t realize at first how much effort it University of Virginia (faulkner. because she used her card earnings to would take to market the website. But lib.virginia.edu/). Two English replace a dirt and concrete kitchen floor she notes, “I can’t just say, ‘This is hard. professors, Frederick Gwynn with tile. Another mother discovered she This is scary. I don’t want to do it any- and Joseph Blotner, made the had design talent. Her son now says of her, more.’” She thinks of her work as a “This is what God made you for.” ­privilege: “I get to do it. . . . If I didn’t do recordings with Faulkner’s Bateman says she’s motivated to work it I would probably regret it for the rest permission. —S.O. bateman: bateman: hard because she knows and has seen of my life.” A T h omas omas B e ck • • ck p e Missions helper • handout ru: Robert Carpenter returned from a short-term mission trip with an idea for

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Take a break Waiting for the bus? Put down that BlackBerry: Recent studies find that our brains need that down time. At the University of California, San Francisco, researchers found that rats only process new ­experiences when they take a break from exploration. A study at the University of Michigan found that people learn better after a walk in the woods than in an urban Online almost anywhere environment. Using technology constantly “ MiFi” offers laptop users a mobile internet signal to multitask during small gaps in the ­day— Byssa ali wilkinson standing in line, going for a walk—may keep us from being able to solidify ideas and Years ago, politicians and phone data networks, a new type dreamers talked of blanket- of device has popped up: the MiFi. experiences or turn them into knowledge ing whole cities in a wireless It’s about the size of a thick credit and long-term memory. —A.W. >> internet signal, making it card and emits a 3G internet signal possible for anyone with a laptop to that up to five people can use at access the web from anywhere—a once. The Virgin Mobile version coffee shop, a park, your own bed- costs $40 per month and operates room. But we’re still waiting for over the Sprint network, with no that idea to be realized, as anyone limit on the amount of data users who’s looked for an internet signal can download—making it possible in a new city knows all too well. even to watch movies over the net- But cell phone companies work. The signal is only half as fast ­recognize the potential market and as a cable modem and it won’t have been coming up operate in areas without Sprint with solutions. In coverage, but for many, addition to the MiFi may tiny devices represent a

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L ife goes on The Gulf of Mexico is recovering from the BP oil spill more quickly than many had Melting mistake expected Byanie d l james devine The ice caps of Greenland and West Antarctica aren’t melting as fast as previously believed, say researchers What a relief: The BP oil spill won’t wipe out the Gulf of in the United States and the Netherlands. Satellites Mexico food chain after all. Early in September U.S. govern- since 2002 have measured minute changes in the ment scientists released measurements showing that bacterial Earth’s gravitational field, and scientists had used those >> consumption of the oil hasn’t created an aquatic “dead zone” changes to estimate that Greenland was losing 230 as some had feared. Although the water oxygen level dropped 20 ­billion metric tons of ice each year. (West Antarctica percent in the spill region, it remains high enough to support fish and was believed to be losing 132 billion metric tons—while apparently isn’t decreasing. Some experts take the numbers as a the rest of the South Pole has seen increasing ice cover vindication of the risky decision by BP and the government to pump over the last few decades.) 771,000 gallons of chemical dispersants deep underwater during But those original predictions miscalculated a the crisis. rebound effect occurring in the Earth’s crust: The crust The Gulf’s recovery is progressing faster than many expected. is still contorting and expanding in relief from the weight Researchers in the field report green grass in onetime oil-blackened of long-gone Ice Age glaciers. With that factor cor- marshes. The DAF says Gulf seafood is safe to eat, and wildlife rected, the new outlook has the ice caps “melting at ­casualties have been low compared to the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill. approximately half the speed originally predicted,” (Only about 4 percent as many birds have died.) according to the researchers. That supports increasing Some scientists aren’t celebrating, though. The discovery of evidence that the North Pole won’t melt within this underwater oil plumes and a layer of oil on the seafloor led critics to decade, as some have ominously predicted. —D.J.D. describe an August estimate that three-fourths of the oil was gone as “a fairy tale scenario.” They say persistent oil lurking in the Gulf, even in widespread, microscopic amounts, could have a future effect on wildlife—by causing tumors in growing fish, for instance. Energy technology Greenlandic But even the pessimistic acknowledge the oil plumes are diffuse Bu gdIESEl ­company Joule Unlimited I

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Ernest I. “Pappy” Reveal founded the Evansville Rescue Mission in Indiana. Later— in 1927—he established on land north of Evansville, 105 acres r Camp Reveal e d i e purchased for $1. The camp, along with its chapel, above, continues to operate n h S summer camps, retreats, and free sessions for children of low-income families. g Grec

O C T B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 WORLD 65 D ickson: Paul Jasienski/ap • Alexander: TED S. WARREN/ap • Johnson: Rick Osentoski/ap —M.B. Shaun Alexander with daughter Heaven Nashay and wife Valerie Email: [email protected] Simon’s play against the Spanish complicate admittedly, sports, Team ushing and three catches out of the the of out catches three and ushing backfield—a game-ball-worthy day, if day, game-ball-worthy backfield—a one. there were ever ­r champion reflected such torn motives. He appeared listless, unconcerned with mounting any real challenge and pro- longing his time away from home. So play—especially to choose even then why without teammates to consider? might athletes possible, If matter. the Seattle former of lead the consider Alexander. Shaun back running Seahawks against game home afternoon 2003 a In witnessed Alexander Rams, Louis St. the waited daughter, first his of birth the baby, and wife kiss to enough long just to escort police by rushed then and in late game the entering Field, Qwest Seahawks the helping and half first the yards 58 with victory comeback a to - Ed Dickson ­ witness a birth. Still, Dickson’s decision is not Times have ennis Frenchman Gilles Simon elected elected Simon Gilles Frenchman ennis ­t ­typically are involved, often serving as birth coaches, cheerleaders, or docu mentary filmmakers. athletic today’s in unheard-of entirely kickoff the before weeks two Just world. up-and-coming season, football of in Open U.S. the at run his out finish to new- his with be than rather York New a win to managed He Paris. in son born arrival son’s his after day the on match days two sets straight in losing before Nadal. Rafael champion eventual to later Nadal, with match the into Heading fabulous. it’s win, I “If quipped: Simon fabulous.” more even it’s lose, I if And contractual obligations contractual obligations on hold for at least a few hours. changed. A generation ago, many coaches wouldn’t have allowed their players to miss on-field action to Of course, “witnessing a birth” for most men used to mean pacing the hospital lobby. Now, fathers more A swirl of protest ensued over a rule Lions fans believed obtuse and void of common sense. But lost in A swirl of protest ensued over a rule Lions fans believed obtuse and void of common sense. Hot dogs burned dogs Hot In the closing seconds of the Detroit Lions season-opening loss to the Chicago Bears, receiver In the closing seconds of the Detroit Lions season-opening loss to the Chicago Bears, receiver hauled in what appeared to be a game-winning touchdown catch. But referees ruled he Calvin Johnson hauled in what appeared to be a game-winning touchdown catch. But referees ruled he let go of the ball too soon, failing to complete the process of making the catch. No catch. No touchdown. let go of the ball too soon, failing to complete the process of making the catch. No catch. No Lions victory. that govern his such clamor was the foolishness of Johnson, who not only failed to understand the rules craft, but appeared more concerned with style than surety. His decision to drop the ball and begin celebrating celebrating begin and ball the drop to decision His surety. than style with concerned more appeared but craft, before proving possession reflects the latest fashion in stylized touchdowns. Releasing the ball at the earliest earliest the at ball the Releasing touchdowns. stylized in fashion latest the reflects possession proving before ergin Several players recently have forfeited sure scores by releasing the ball before crossing the goal line on break- on line goal the crossing before ball the releasing by scores sure forfeited have recently players Several e kickoff of career by one p b r possible moment after scoring has become the modern-day equivalent of the old touchdown spike. possible moment after scoring has become the modern-day equivalent of the old touchdown L o F away runs. Many more have done so without penalty, none more egregious than Notre Dame wideout T.J. Jones, Jones, T.J. wideout Dame Notre than egregious more none penalty, without so done have more Many runs. away who dropped the ball a full yard before the end zone on a 53-yard score during a recent Irish loss at home to to home at loss Irish recent a during score 53-yard a on zone end the before yard full a ball the dropped who k Michigan. Perhaps a return to the more subdued celebration of handing the ball to the referee is in order. order. in is referee the to ball the handing of celebration subdued more the to return a Perhaps Michigan. S f N orts

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Supreme Court decisions make Federal Circuit Court of Appeals: headlines, but decisions at the No link between vaccines and autism level just below (which are rarely Born Aug. 30, 1994, Michelle >> overturned) often go unreported. Cedillo was a normal, healthy baby. Here are three: At 15 months, she received a ­measles vaccination, as do most 10th Circuit Court of Appeals: Roadside American infants. Within days, crosses are unconstitutional Michelle developed symptoms of White crosses autism and other disabili- pepper roadsides ties. Today, at age 16, Michelle 9th Circuit Court of Appeals: across the country, is confined to a wheelchair, Lies are free speech memorializing diapers, feeding tubes, and California water board member Xavier those who died in struggles with hand signals and Alvarez purportedly had a colorful past: car accidents. Their tapping as the sole means of hockey player, heroic Iranian hostage presence needs no communication to her family. rescuer of the American ambassador, explanation. The The Cedillos and over 5,500 secretly wed to a Mexican starlet. Such Utah Highway other families filed claims fables eventually caught up with him. Patrol Association against the U.S. Department o Recently elected, Alvarez introduced (UHPA), a private Health and Human Services himself at a water board meeting as a entity, honors alleging a mercury-based vac- retired marine and recipient of the Medal fallen state troop- cine preservative, thimerosal, of Honor. It was a lie. The Stolen Valor ers with 12-foot caused the children to develop Act of 2005 makes it a federal crime to lie white crosses bearing the trooper’s autism and other related diseases. The about military service or military honors. name, badge number, and the patrol’s claims seek compensation under the Alvarez is the first person to be charged beehive logo. UHPA chose the cross federal Vaccine Injury Compensation and convicted under the Act. symbol because, when placed on a Program, which shields vaccine compa- Despite pleading m o

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L auren Sneed is a lawyer living in Austin, Texas O C T B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 WORLD 67 yuan:a Im ginechina via AP Images • rendell: Bradley C Bower/ap • debt: Henrik Jonsson/istock d r w —J.S. r —J.S. The second-term Democrat Payinga it fo ­seizing up of the municipal bond market. The state also sent the city money to hire a financial adviser. Harrisburg faces another big bond payment in March 2011. Insisting the payment was “not a bailout,” Pennsylvania Gov. Ed would state the announced Rendell advance its financially beleaguered capital city, Harrisburg, $3.3 million to prevent a bond default (“Sorry, We Can’t Pay,” Sept. 15). Most of the funds—including $2.6 million earmarked for municipal-pension assistance and $1 million slated for fire protection—would have been disbursed to Harrisburg in the months ahead. “We’re just front- loading it and expediting it,” Rendell said. said he acted to prevent a possible - - o , at at , J seph Slife is the assistant editor of SoundMindInvesting.com yuan flexible exchange rates. “We are very ­flexible exchange rates. negative impact of concerned about the these policies on our economic inter ­hearings, but he stopped short of artic artificially low levels against the dollar, against the levels low artificially Chinese leaders despite a promise from to allow more earlier this summer ests,” Geithner testified at both pressed Treasury Secretary Timothy pressed Treasury Secretary China against Geithner to take action the currency, its keeping for ulating a specific policy response. U.S. manufacturers have long argued that China’s currency policies give Chinese products an unfair advantage in the world marketplace. Chinese officials deny claims of currency manipulation. As the fiscal year began, total U.S. debt, which includes not only the debt held by Security and various trust funds, stood at roughly $13.5 trillion. the public but also money the Treasury Department has borrowed from Social public” is owned outside the United States. - debt instruments. In all, about 45 percent of the $8.9 trillion in U.S. debt that’s “held by the debt instruments. In all, about 45 percent of the $8.9 trillion in U.S. debt that’s “held by the fe i Sl holdings of U.S. debt fall just shy of $1 trillion, close to one-fourth of total foreign ownership of U.S. holdings of U.S. debt fall just shy of $1 trillion, close to one-fourth of total foreign ownership w h When China’s holdings are combined with those of Chinese-administered Taiwan, total Chinese When China’s holdings are combined with those of Chinese-administered Taiwan, total Chinese years ago), while Japan holds about $800 billion (an increase from $666 billion). The United Kingdom is in years ago), while Japan holds about $800 billion (an increase from $666 billion). The United third place, with holdings of about $360 billion (a seven-fold increase from 2005). O others to ed be its two top foreign creditors. China holds roughly $850 billion in U.S. debt (up from $300 billion just five be its two top foreign creditors. China holds roughly $850 billion in U.S. debt (up from $300 Money As Washington entered its new fiscal year Oct. 1, its two biggest currency rivals (see above) continued to As Washington entered its new fiscal year Oct. 1, its two biggest currency rivals (see above)

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DirectorDirector of Advancement, of Admissions Asheville • MusicChristian and Academy, Choral Swannanoa, Directorothers inNC: light of the historic realities of whosome we are, where politicians we have Serfdom To Road Our Asheville Christian Academy is seeking a qualified and energetic profes-come from, and where we are going in relation to wages, job security, full Progressivism: employment, personal wealth accumulation,want and personal Americans freedoms. sionalAsheville for the Christian position of AcademyDirector of isAdvancement seeking an who experienced will be responsible Director for designing and implementing a comprehensive development programThe Hatfi elds discuss the causes and historyto behind live the currentwith. failing of Admissions to begin immediately. Must have in-deptheconomy knowl- and present a step-by-step understanding of how to rebuild with particular attention to major gift fundraising, marketing (i.e. growingour God-given capitalist foundations with greaterThis success. is totally It takes a edgeenrollment), of and alumni commitment relations, to and Christian initiating andeducation. nurturing Qualifications: relationshipscandid lookwith at how A new wealth is created by current and advancing technologies. Moreover, it reveals the secretsagainst and the inner workingsGod’s families,robust knowledgecommunity leaders of student and institutions recruitment in Western and marketing,North Carolinaof progressive atten- and socialism—the political and ideological barrier that stands between those who love America andplans the republic’s for limited beyond.tion to Reportingdetail, public directly presence to the Head and of School,strong thecommunication Director of Advance-form skills. of government. ment personally manages a portfolio of major donors and oversees a team of Progressivism: Our Road to Serfdom presents a fascinatingAmerica story ofand how staff, outside partners,This and is volunteer a twelve-month leaders working position. to secure continually-wealth is created and its effect on all Americans—wage earners,

increasing gift income, cultivating current and potential donors, promotingsmall business a owners, and equity owners boththe large Kingdom and small. It Hatfield J. Marilyn and Zester demonstrates how the Constitution gives all Americans the unalienable broaderAsheville understanding Christian of Asheville Academy Christian is also Academy seeking and an its experienced ministry.right to prosperThis from their own labor and capitalof possessions.Christ. is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive salary and benefits. Music and Choral Director for the 2010-2011 school year. Must “Progressivism: have outstanding organizational and instructional skills, vision Zester Hatfi eld is a practicing fi nancial PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: consultant andOur holds licenses Road in real estate,To insurance, and securities. for• U thenderstanding vocal arts, of the and advancement a team player. and marketing This is efforts a ten-month of a Christian position. not- Marilyn J. Hatfi eld is a practicingSerfdom” tax and fi nancial is a for-profit organization, a demonstrated commitment to Christian Education, advisor, author, and business manager. She holds licenses in accounting, tax preparation, Forand over a track 50 years,record ofAsheville prior fundraising Christian success. Academy has provided a robust, securities, and insurance.must They read have six for Christ-centered liberal arts education to families in the Western North children and twenty-four grandchildren. • Bachelor’s degree or higher in philanthropy, business, or another related all Christians fieldCarolina and/or region. five years Detailed of experience job description in development, for both marketing, positions sales, can capitalbe who seek the found on our Web site. Interested and qualified candidates should send campaigns and/or management. will of God a detailed résumé, and references along with a letter of introduction to: • Proven ability to develop and articulate compelling communications to a for Christ’s variety of audiences. William George / Head of School / Asheville Christian Academy Kingdom here • An exemplary74 Riverwood personal Rd., testimony Swannanoa, and NC relationship 28778 / Phone: with 828-581-2200Jesus Christ as dem- on earth. onstrated by being an active member of an evangelical church and mature Website: www.acacademy.org / E-mail: [email protected] knowledge of the Scriptures and the Gospel. • Agreement withApplication the by-laws, Deadlinemission, philosophy, is August strategic 1, 2010 goals, and State- ment of Faith of Asheville Christian Academy. Asheville Christian Academy is accredited by ACSI and SACS. Books may be purchased online in hardback, ABOUT ASHEVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: For more than 50 years paperback or e-book at: www.progressivesocialism.com Asheville Christian Academy has been a place where educators work hand in hand with families to cultivate curious and nimble young minds -- focusing those minds on challenging academic pursuits and, more importantly, on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and on the application of the Word of God in all realms of curricular and co-curricular learning. Located just outside of Asheville, North Carolina amidst the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains, the surrounding region offers a wide range of outdoor activities including mountain biking, kayaking, fishing, hiking, and camping in some of the most beautiful areas SEEKING TEAM-LEADER PASTOR of the country. The quality of life in Asheville is outstanding, with a very diverse and thriving cultural community, a mild climate, beautiful scenery, Columbia Presbyterian Church (CPC) low crime, low unemployment, two universities and many colleges nearby, in Columbia, Maryland, and diverse housing markets. Asheville Christian Academy is an interdenomi- national K-12 school of approximately 550 students located on a beautiful 52 is seeking a Team-Leader Pastor (TLP). acre campus in the Swannanoa valley. ACA is accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) and by the Southern Association of The TLP reflects the plurality of Christ’s church Colleges and Schools (SACS). For more information about ACA visit www. as a servant leader who: ACAcademy.org. Email submissions are preferred. To submit a cover letter and resumé, or for a full job description, contact our Executive Search Consul- • Oversees the preaching of the Gospel tant, Derric G. Bakker, President, Keystone Consulting Services LLC • Partners with Session to develop and Office: 828-667-5180 • Mobile: 616-706-4900 execute the vision for the church Email: [email protected] • www.keystone-consulting.com • Mentors and shepherds pastoral staff, elders, and ministry teams

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I couldn’t believe that someone could “More than combine two of my favorite subjects, money” baseball and calling, into one article, but (Aug. 28) Thank you for the Marvin Olasky did it in “Work & calling.” And fine article about two Christians in the Gene Edward Veith’s essay on “Arenas of service” was the marketplace. In 1969, as an established businessman and, more importantly, as a capstone of your special report. Some are made to feel that new believer, I was discipled by Dorothy if they are not involved in professional Christian service, Sayers’ essay, “Why Work?” from her they are not fulfilling their calling. We need Christians in all book Creed or Chaos. I never got over it. Can we imagine the incredible energy and walks of life spreading salt and light. impact around the world from believers A l Shirah, Big Canoe, Ga. seeking to honor God in their “secular” vocations? Alec Woodhull Rockford, Tenn. I have always thought I should be helpful The articles on vocation as calling were and cheerful at work but I never exactly excellent. We are failing in the area of the “Pushing paper in the kingdom” knew why, which cut down on my actual sacred because we have divided our lives (Aug. 28) cheerfulness. Knowing that God works between the sacred and the secular. Thank you for a fine column. Christians who through every calling has revolutionized Carl Abbott think that what they do now on earth is a and rejuvenated my sense of drive to Gerry, N.Y. holding pattern until the time “we get to work, not for myself but for the glory of heaven” are a pet peeve. Work here has God. I was not looking forward to returning to special meaning now and in the future, as I Grant Allard work this school year because of the read the Scriptures, and Janie Cheaney Turlock, Calif. ­challenges at my school encouraged believers that even the most

Your Labor Day Special Report reminded G ulf of Mexico during BP oil spill cleanup / submitted by roberto alps me of Ecclesiastes 5:19-20, my favorite Scripture referring to work: “When God around the world gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work, this is a gift of God. He seldom reflects on the days of his life because the Lord keeps him ­occupied with gladness of heart.” Albin Sadar Sunnyside, N.Y.

The danger of separating the secular and sacred is such an important concept for understanding our work. I was glad to see WORLD devote an issue to it. And I loved how “Work & calling” was structured around ballgames and conversations. It made me feel like I was there. Jeremy Gabrysch Austin, Texas

Send photos and letters to: [email protected] O C T B E R 9 , 2 0 1 0 WORLD 71 boring work done now should be executed You had a great comparison between those I was touched by the deep inner struggle of to the glory of the Most High God. who obey our immigration laws and those atheist and author Christopher Hitchens. He Don Spencer who feel they can break the law as long as has studied philosophy, science, compara- Lake Tapps, Wash. their “intentions” are good. Lisa Hope tells tive religions, and the Holy Bible, yet the of her experience of becoming a citizen, as only lasting hope for any of us lies in the “Shortage or surplus?” (Aug. 28) my father did, with an appreciation for the first half of his own name. Having outstanding teachers is a key to opportunity to become an American. Not so Wally Kroguletz education reform, but students have the with those who choose to disobey the law. Sumas, Wash. major responsibility of being ready to learn. It is sad to see children suffer from their In a population increasingly driven by parents’ actions. “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”(Aug. 28) ­entitlement, we need to discuss account- Trudy Camping My wife and went to see Scott Pilgrim ability for students and parents. Phoenix, Ariz. based on Sam Thielman’s review. We were D.J. DeJong extremely disappointed. Yes, it is funny if Falcon, Colo. Dispatches (Aug. 28) you want to laugh at sin. We were at our Florida condo three days Malcolm Kinsinger “Immigration equation” (Aug. 28) after the BP oil leak began. Our prayers Washington, Ill. On my last trip to Mexico I took a photo of a became radical pleas for supernatural inter- sign at the border warning visitors to “have vention to save the beautiful Gulf and the “Dropping the ball” (Aug. 28) your documents ready for inspection by livelihood of so many Americans along its What a shame that the only name that Mexican customs and immigration authori- coastline. Thank you for being the only stood out to Mark Bergin at the NFL Hall of ties.” Now I’m wondering why it works on news outlet even to hint at divine involve- Fame induction ceremony was the one not their side of the border but not on ours. ment in the mystery of the “missing oil.” known for personal greatness, Jerry Rice. Linda Wisdom Elaine Neumeyer The first words of running back Emmit Bishop, Calif. Big Canoe, Ga. Smith were to “thank my Lord and Savior,

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“Talk talk talk talk talk” (Aug. 14) I liked Mindy Belz’s column. Our conver- sation seems to be going the way of our art. In the same way that modern art offers us meaningless shapes and lines, so American conversations seem to be shallow and loose. It is encouraging that the Bible can help us to recover our ­communication skills. Andrew Paulson Apple Valley, Minn.

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“Do your best,” says Paul. Which sounds like a man who is aware of living in a certain amount of contingency. For all his abiding on a spiritual plane—this is the apostle who was privileged to be caught up in the third heaven, according to 2 Corinthians 12:2—he makes plans like the rest of us, and hopes they will material- ize. Try, Timothy. Use the same means for W inTEr plans travel preparation as anyone who puts his pants on one leg at a time. Raise the cash. Check the A request by Paul shows an awareness of boat schedules. contingency in a man confident in the Lord Paul has lifted his petition to heaven, and there he leaves it in the lap of the Almighty. He evidently does not regard God’s throne as an inter is near. You may have plans for the automatic wish-dispenser. Nor does he take the season—to head south and escape it, to tack that God will necessarily answer his prayer grab skis and plunge headlong into it, to exactly in the way he envisions it. If Timothy launch a new business, to redeem last year’s cannot come till winter, or spring, or even at all, grade point average. presumably Paul will not be shook. The Apostle Paul had winter plans and When I think about how to make sense of they are frozen in aspic for time immemorial this, I consider: Paul’s chief desire is God’s chief in the leave-takings of a 2,000-year-old desire—the kingdom come. If any mortal ever ­letter that no pastor preaches on because it is wanted that, Paul did. And so Paul asks for naught but regards and regrets about persons Tim’s coming in winter because somehow, in his we don’t know. The verse would seem to have judgment, that would be helpful in advancing as much meat on it as the neck bone of your the kingdom. But of course Paul knows that he Thanksgiving turkey. Nor am I inclined to mine doesn’t know all things, and that he cannot see Paul’s meaning for hidden allegories about the around corners, and that it may well be that the winter of our present economic discontent, or long-range success of God’s eschatological the setting sun of Western Civilization. It is flatly prosaic instruction: ­juggernaut will not be best helped by Timothy’s “Do your best to come before winter” (2 Timothy 4:21). coming. What spoke to me in this postscript of the inspired So Paul feels free to ask Wprisoner was a correction to my own understanding Timothy—and God—for what of prayer. (Didn’t he tell us a chapter back that all he deems most propitious, Scripture is good for “correction”?) The correction but feels equally open- is incidental to the passage, in a sense; Paul handed about the outcome. didn’t mean to challenge my attitude; he just His assurance is not that meant to have Timothy come before winter! Timothy will ­definitely He must have been dead earnest because it is come before ­winter but that the second mention: “Do your best to come to God has heard his prayers, me soon” (verse 9). Life is hard: Demas has every one of them. Speaking ­forsaken me, Alexander the coppersmith did me for myself, I am so relieved harm, I am alone except for Luke. Bring my that God did not grant all cloak, it’s cold in this dungeon—oh, and don’t my prayers! I shudder to forget the parchments. think of some things I have I am struck by what Paul does not say. He ­fervently asked for! does not say, “Timothy, pray to come in winter, I need to get away from and the Lord will certainly grant your prayer.” the habit of being dejected Or, “Timothy, I have besought the Lord on your every time prayers are not behalf to come in winter, and I know He will answered precisely my allow it because He Himself said, ‘Ask and you way. One thing I should will receive.’” And yet, I must assume Paul did have learned by this pray about the matter and did ask the Lord to autumn of my life—that e i

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g told us to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians ment my plan it is because He e i r k a 5:17). has an even better one. A

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role in the next musical when the one you’re in closes. Neither has had to work a “survival job” in New York. And yet, both Jeff and Nikki tell aspiring singers/actors with suitcases almost packed, “Don’t come here unless you can’t see yourself doing anything else.” Why? It’s materially risky but even harder spiritually. You need to be concerned with looks Chrita s i ns without looking into the mirror at every spare moment and admiring yourself. You need to promote yourself without becoming self- on Broadway absorbed. You need to keep going to casting calls and not be cast down when you’re not The hard part is promoting yourself selected. You may have to be separated from without becoming self-absorbed your spouse during national tours. Nikki notes that being a Christian is helpful “because you know there’s a bigger plan for his summer I wrote about Leonardo Le San, a young your life, it’s not all about you.” Jeff nods but ­pianist playing at Carnegie Hall who has the guts to list on adds that “you’re representing Jesus” within a his Facebook page, “Religious views: Christian.” This culture antagonistic toward Him, so non-­ ­column starts with an equally gutsy declaration by young Christians cheerily say, “aha, aha,” if you actor Jeff Kready, who’s playing one of the five major ­falter—and Christians may also judge you for roles in the Tony Award–winning musical Billy Elliot— accepting certain roles. “Kansas music teacher turned actor: credit to God alone For example, some Christians will not want to for this amazing opportunity.” see Billy Elliot, which is based loosely on a That declaration was in the “Who’s Who in the Cast” ­sometimes-violent 1984-85 British coalminers section of Playbill, the theater magazine. Actors can put in strike and includes lots of rough language as the line of their choice (another from Billy Elliot wrote well as a cross-dressing boy who yearns to kiss “Let’s Go Mets”) and occasionally an actor does thank God 11-year-old Billy Elliott. But Jeff has a terrific role along with family members—but “credit to God alone”? in Tony, Billy’s big brother: “not a very nice In an occupation filled with egotists, not many say that. guy,” Jeff notes. Tony is gung-ho on striking— Susan and I had dinner with Jeff and his wife Nikki, the actual strike divided the coalminers so badly who works in another Broadway musical, the revival of that the union leader never risked a vote Promises, Promises. Work it is, eight performances a ­authorizing it—and ready to hit anyone week. They are celebrating their first wedding anniver- who isn’t. He and their dad oppose Tsary this month, but she’ll continue commuting between Billy’s desire to take ballet rather their Harlem apartment and Broadway while he heads than boxing lessons. out on the highway with the Billy Elliot national touring The gay undertones are obvious, company: Stops coming up in Durham, Cleveland, but the musical is also in the Minneapolis, Charlotte, Tampa, Houston, Seattle, American tradition of kids blazing Portland, Tempe, Denver, Dallas, and St. Louis. their own trails. The first full- Nikki came to Manhattan in 2001 and found out length movie with sound, The the day after 9/11 that she had won a role in Aida. Jazz Singer, featured Al Jolson She grew up dreaming of singing on stage, and as the son of a Jewish cantor her eyes light up when she talks about living the who wants him to sing at syn- dream in New York as she sang “Summertime” agogue services—but Jolson’s in Porgy and Bess before 3,000 people. Jeff , 28, character loves Broadway came in 2006 after leaving a job as a music jazz. In a sense, that’s the Jeff teacher and then working at the Dutch Apple and Nikki story as well: They Dinner Theater in Lancaster, Pa. He landed a could perform in “wholesome” role in the Les Miserables revival, understudied entertainment in Lancaster, or the Jean Valjean lead role, and got to perform Branson, Mo., or Pigeon Forge,

Tenn., but they’ve received N/Ne W it: Recalling that dream moment, he said, “You E N feel like your head’s going to explode.” both an internal and an external w s

They are the winners in Manhattan’s never- call to Broadway—and they c o ending race to be working on stage and to have a don’t hide their faith in Christ. A m

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