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16 News of the year 66 Departures DISPATCHES: 7 News • 12 Movies VOICES: 5 Joel Belz • 14 Janie B. Cheaney • 80 Mindy Belz 85 Mailbag • 91 Andrée Seu • 92 Marvin Olasky ON THE COVER: Occupy: Mary Altaffer/AP; tornado: Dusty Compton/The Tuscaloosa News/AP; Somalia famine: Rebecca Blackwell/AP; / anniversary: David Handschuh/NY Daily News/AP; Elizabeth Taylor: Susan Ragan/AP; Japan: Matt Dunham/AP; Osama bin Laden: AP; shuttle: Terry Renna/AP; South Sudan: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/ Getty Images; don’t ask: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images; Steve Jobs: Paul Sakuma/AP; Penn State: Patrick Smith/ Getty Images; GOP: Charlie Neibergall/AP; Egypt: AP; Gabby Giffords: Matt York/AP; royal wedding: Martin Meissner/AP; Hurricane Irene: Jim R. Bounds/AP; Wisconsin: Adam Jungwirth/The Oshkosh Northwestern/AP; Geraldine Ferraro: AP; Afghanistan: David Goldman/AP; Moammar Qaddafi: Ben Curtis/AP; Russian hockey team: Sergei Grits/AP; job fair: Rick Bowmer/AP; Greece: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP; real estate: Gene J. Puskar/AP
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W days make! If you read my lament in WORLD’s last issue, you’ll recall my frustration at the reluctance of a band of Walmart shoppers to participate in my simple sidewalk survey. My question to them, I thought, was fair: “Is there any particular message you’d like to send to the government in Washington?” But almost no one wanted to talk—and I devoted this space to my frustration (“Mr. Gallup would be sad,” Dec. ). I couldn’t let the matter rest. Back I went this past week to the same Walmart parking lot, determined to show myself a more winsome and a better interviewer. The rain had stopped, the holidays were closer, the Salvation Army bell ringer was there, and maybe, I thought, people would have cheered up a bit. The results include good news and bad news. The good news is that the folks coming and going at Walmart’s main door were indeed sweeterspirited and more willing to stop for a brief chat than they had been days earlier. Both times, I approached about people over a two-hour period. I’d done this same thing a number of times before, and typically found I could get decent conversations out of approaches. What was so upsetting a couple of weeks back was that out of approaches, only two or three people were willing to talk. This week, only one person out of said no—and she apologized and explained she was late for another appointment. The bad news, though, is that all these folks who were so ready to talk had so little to say.
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“Hang Obama!” ranted Delmar Howard, one of my very first interviewees. “What?” I asked, taken back by his vicious candor. “Yah,” he said, watching me take notes. “You asked what message I’d like to go to Washington. And I said to tell them to hang Obama. He’s done more to destroy our government than any terrorist ever thought of doing. He should pay the ultimate price.” And then: “You got that?” “Pump a whole lot more money into Planned Parenthood,” suggested Jayfish Thompson. “I hear they help keep poor families smaller, and that’s one of the main things we need right now. We can’t afford any more poor people.” Was my wide-eyed wonderment showing as I scribbled in my reporter’s pad? “Cut the prices of food and gas,” said Lisa Reed. I wanted to ask her if that was the federal government’s task, in the first place, and if the feds had that ability even if it was their job. I was here, though, not to argue, but simply to report responses. Like shopper Thomas Clark’s complaint: “The rich don’t pay no taxes at all. Poor people been carrying this country since the United States began. It’s time the rich people did their part.” I asked Mr. Clark how much his tax bill had been in , and he said he “couldn’t rightly remember.” “Legalize drugs,” said Jasper Marshall. “We’ve got more people in jail because of drugs than for murder and rape. Is that what we want?” I could go on. But it’s time to tabulate the results. Virtually every response from these willing gabbers fell into either of two disappointing categories: They were trivial and without substance. Or they were crude, coarse, and vulgar. Some will say this is the nature of a democracy. Don’t expect elegant answers from the common people. Don’t look for sophisticated insights from the hoi polloi. Maybe you’d get more thoughtful, civil answers from shoppers at Barnes & Noble. But I’ve been around enough to sense that the distance and distrust I heard two weeks ago at Walmart, and then the trivial and vulgar responses this week, are not an altogether unrepresentative picture of the larger America today. The mass media feed it. The individualized social media (Facebook and Twitter) feed it. And it’s not true only of the “Walmart class.” We have become, across all classes and in so many ways, a trivialized and vulgarized people. So I got the responses I was looking for. But now I almost wish I hadn’t. A DECEMBER 31, 2011
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R P’ I cochairman, A.J. Spiker of Ames, is happy with what he sees. The GOP candidate is speaking quietly without notes in the packed upstairs room at a library in Boone when he hits his first applause line— over his promise to cut a trillion dollars from the federal budget the first year of his presidency. More applause erupts when the Texas congressman promises to bring “all the troops home.” Paul isn’t just talking about troops in Afghanistan or other combat areas. He’s talking about recalling the entire U.S. military presence spanning the globe. Paul has staked out positions to the right of his rivals—aggressive cuts to spending, defense and foreign policy— that in the past prevented him from becoming a standard-bearer. But in a wildly fluctuating Republican race for
the nomination, other candidates have surged and faded while Paul has held steady nationwide. In Iowa he is riding an upswing in the final weeks before caucus night on Jan. . The Des Moines Register’s poll released in early December pegged him in second at percent, behind Newt Gingrich and just ahead of Mitt Romney. Several polls confirm the same top three. An Iowa victory—or even second place—will make it hard for mainstream media and the GOP establishment to ignore a man many have seen as a fringe candidate. Four years ago, Paul’s support depended too heavily on voters under age , says Spiker. The oldest candidate in the race, Paul packed out the venue at the Iowa State University campus with a student audience hours after the Boone town hall. But polls show Paul
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RIDING AN has doubled his Iowa UPSWING: strength in four years, Paul speaks and the campaign sees a on Dec. , in broader cross-section of Boone, Iowa. support. “[The economy] is starting to hit people’s pocket books,” Spiker says. “The economy’s the biggest moral issue of the day. Families are struggling.” Putting the agenda in moral terms draws Iowa’s social conservative caucusgoers, the same conservatives who lifted Mike Huckabee to a strong plurality in Iowa four years ago. For that support is divided among several candidates, but Paul sees them as crucial to a strong showing. Paul frames his pro-life sentiments around his experiences as a medical doctor (his official biography says he’s delivered , babies), and touches frequently on his Lutheran ties. Although some of DECEMBER 31, 2011
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Conservative lawmakers in the House of Representatives pushed to ban abortions based on gender or race. “Today in America, to percent of all African-American babies, virtually one in two, are killed before they are born,” said Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., who authored a bill to make it a criminal and civil offense to perform abortions for sex or race selection. The bill has co-sponsors. Franks said at a hearing Dec. that abortion “is a greater cause of death for African-Americans than heart diseases, cancer, diabetes, AIDS, and violence combined.”
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A sixth come-from-behind victory for the Denver Broncos, who beat the Chicago Bears in overtime - on Dec. , has even critics showing respect for Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, called by some “the Mile-High Messiah.” The -year-old Heisman Trophy winner, made Denver’s starting quarterback in October, continues to drop his knee in thanks after key plays, despite mocking by some reporters and fellow NFLers. “Tebow is not even close to the most physically talented quarterback in the NFL,” said nonbelieving political columnist Matthew Dowd, “but he has taken a team sitting in the cellar and lifted it up to playoff contention.” But Dowd said, “I do think this Tebow boomlet is about faith. And it’s about confidence. And leadership. And humility …” Dowd contrasted Tebow’s post-game press appearance to a Minutes segment the same night featuring President Obama (“You don’t feel like we are going to win under his leadership.”) and other political leaders.
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President Barack Obama insisted he was not involved in a first-ever decision by the nation’s top health official to overrule the Food and Drug Administration. But Obama supported a Dec. 7 ruling by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to ban over-the-counter sales of
Plan B, a so-called emergency contraceptive, to teenagers 16 and under. “She could not be confident that a 10-year-old or an 11-year-old going to a drugstore should be able—alongside bubble gum or batteries—be able to buy a medication that potentially, if not used properly, could have an adverse effect,” Obama said a day after the decision. The “morning-after” pill, known also as an abortifacient that ends a pregnancy after conception, is available by prescription to women 17 and older.
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With U.S. troops set to exit Iraq by Dec. 31, the Obama administration is debating what to do with Ali Musa Daqduq, a Hezbollah insurgent and the last terrorist in U.S. custody there. Daqduq orchestrated the execution of five U.S. soldiers in Iraq in 2007. Experts warn that if he is released he will end up in Iran, chief sponsor of Hezbollah: “The Iraq war is the first conflict in modern history where the U.S.— having complied with the laws of war by promptly prosecuting American troops believed to have violated those laws—did not bring to justice a single one of the hundreds of captured enemy combatants who have killed Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and contractors,” wrote former Justice Department official David B. Rivkin Jr. and Defense Department official Charles D. Stimson in The Wall Street Journal.
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Savannah swap After losing a four-year court battle over its historic property, Christ Church in Savannah— which voted to leave The Episcopal Church over doctrinal issues for the Anglican Province of Uganda—wasn’t left without a place to worship. Independent Presbyterian Church just down the street, also a historic church dating to the 18th century, offered to share its facilities with the disaffected Episcopal congregants (who make up nearly 90 percent of Christ Church’s membership roll). On Dec. 11 Independent welcomed the displaced Episcopalians publicly, its congregation turning out on the steps as Christ Church members walked from their home church to Independent (see photo). The two congregations plan to share the Presbyterian worship space with different services. “If somebody said how did this day feel to you, I would say it felt strong,” said Christ Church senior pastor Marc Robertson, “which was a great gift, a gift from heaven.”
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husband to her son and to the rest of the world. She’s the embodiment of real love. When financial struggles force the father to sell the horse to the British cavalry at the outbreak of World War I, Albert follows Joey into war. The horse encounters an honorable British captain, a German soldier who promised his mother he would keep his little brother safe from battle, and a French grandfather and granddaughter who are caught in the crossfire of war on their farm. But War Horse isn’t a horse movie, nor is it a “war movie,” asserts Spielberg, who has made his share of war movies (most memorably Saving Private Ryan). “I consider it to be a character story,” he said. “The war is a backdrop that allows us to tell a story.” Tom Hiddleston, the actor who plays a British captain who takes Joey into war, said, “Morpurgo didn’t write a war book, he said he wrote a book about peace.”
Patrick Kennedy, who plays a British soldier in the movie, said Spielberg had the actors watch John Ford westerns to prepare for the movie, and he sees a connection now with War Horse. “More than being a war film, it’s in the tradition of a great western,” Kennedy said. A few jarring moments of war earn the ½-hour film its PG- rating—a tricky category for what is a family film. The film marks the debut of several horrific machines of war. “That year [] was an end of an era,” said Hiddleston, whose character first takes Joey into battle. Humans and horses fall to machine guns, mustard gas, and tanks, while the lush landscapes transform
into no-man’s-land crisscrossed with barbed wire. The land is a character in the film, said Spielberg, and producer Kathleen Kennedy, who has worked on films with Spielberg for more than years, elaborated: “[Spielberg] doesn’t know how the movie’s going to play until he looks through the camera. He realized an important character was the land. That requires a different kind of pacing in the movie— not a lot of closeups and fast cutting.” Viewers will wonder if Spielberg, who has adopted children, felt drawn to the story because of its understated themes of adoption. In each vignette, someone takes Joey in as his or her own, and tries to protect the horse from harm. Screenwriter Richard Curtis told me the story wasn’t necessarily about adoption, but “individual acts of kindness.” Producer Kennedy said the film’s “real core” is this: “a story of family.” A
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A ’ on much in America, in other parts of the world the The Adventures of Tintin graphic novels of Belgian comic artist Hergé have been beloved for generations. The intrepid young journalist, his curious dog Snowy, the bumbling inspectors Thompson and Thomson are as well-known as Popeye or Superman in the United States. Now a big American name, Steven Spielberg, has adapted the Tintin story into a rich animated family film. Fast-paced, beautifully filmed, and full of humor, the movie is one of the better animated movies of the year. Tintin (voiced by Jamie Bell) buys a model of a sailing ship at a street rummage sale. Little does he know that the ship contains a secret message that may be the key to a treasure hidden by the seafaring Haddock family. The nefarious Sakharine (Daniel Craig) will stop at nothing to get the model. But Tintin is just as determined to solve the mystery, and with his dog and the last remaining Haddock (Andy Serkis), he sets off on an adventure that will take him around the world. The movie holds onto some of the conventions that have made the comic books so popular. While Tintin is the main player, Snowy is having his own adventures in the background that Tintin never sees. Inspectors Thompson and Thomson search incompetently for a pickpocket that Snowy finds in the first scene. There are plenty of character-driven gags, and little of the snarky one-liners often popular in kids’ flicks. True to Spielberg, the action sequences don’t let up. Tintin’s adventures transition seamlessly from ocean liner to biplane to sand dunes to Moroccan streets. Rated PG for action violence, the movie also depicts old-fashioned vices: Captain Haddock is a hopeless sodden drinker, which figures humorously into the plot. Some characters smoke but there are no wink-wink sexual jokes designed to tickle adult funny bones. It adds up to a fun family movie for the holidays. See all our movie reviews at WORLDmag.com/movies
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O The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a gripping murder mystery. The first book in Stieg Larsson’s international mega-selling trilogy has been adapted for U.S. audiences following a Swedish language adaptation from . Looking deeper, the mystery happens against the backdrop of Larsson’s post-Christian worldview, which is powerfully and disturbingly portrayed. A wealthy Swedish businessman asks disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) to solve the -year-old disappearance of his niece. Blomkvist enlists the help of Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), an intelligent computer hacker who may or may not have Asperger’s syndrome. Salander’s life has been a long litany of abuse, which she has countered by becoming more powerful than those who would hurt her. Larsson looks unflinchingly at evil, creating a relentlessly dark and brutally graphic story. Part of the story involving Salander’s court-appointed guardian depicts torture and rape—earning the film its R rating. In Larsson’s world, there is no doubt that evil exists. Good is more difficult to find. Goodness means to be who one presents oneself to be. Thus, when Blomkvist or Salander enters into consensual sexual relationships with multiple partners, it is good so long as nothing is secret or false. The main characters remain steadfastly secular. God is irrelevant to Blomkvist, and evil flows freely from human hearts. Since redemption isn’t possible, revenge takes its place. Salander seems particularly vulnerable but represents Larsson’s highest hero. She controls her own destiny but at high cost to herself. The film is a perfect window into Larsson’s and many others’ wordview. With redemption and mercy out of the picture, the will to power becomes the ultimate goal of mankind.
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nations rage and kingdoms totter Convulsive changes defining a year of street rage began shortly before the year itself did, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old fruit seller in central Tunisia, had enough. Authorities confiscated Bouazizi’s street cart in December 2010, saying it was illegal. The vendor, who quit school as a teenager to support his extended family amid a 30 percent unemployment rate, planted himself in front of a government office in the city of Sidi Bouzid, doused himself in gasoline, and lit a match. His immolation—and the Tunisian government’s attempts to block Facebook pages constructed in his honor—ignited street protests. Bouazizi survived for 18 days, his cause pushing then-President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali even to visit him in the burn unit. But the 23-year regime of Ben Ali itself outlasted Bouazizi by only 10 days. On Jan. 14 Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia. That evening Lebanese broadcaster Abeer Madi al-Halabi ended a report quoting a Tunisian poet: “And the people wanted life,” she said, “and the chains were broken.” Ben Ali’s departure marked the first time popular protests had overthrown an Arab leader. Bouazizi and his pushcart had demonstrated that one man in a small place could stand against dictatorship— and across the Middle East men and women took notice. “The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; He utters His voice, the earth melts,” wrote the psalmist in Psalm 46. By mid-January protesters in Algeria, Jordan, and Yemen had joined Tunisians in demanding the ouster of ruling parties. In Egypt four men set themselves on fire on Jan. 18, inspired by events in Tunisia. As thousands of Egyptians joined protests, the army deployed on the streets of Cairo for the first time in 25 years. By Feb. 1 more than a quarter of a million Egyptians massed in Tahrir Square, and President Hosni Mubarak announced he would not seek reelection. Ten days later, with Egypt’s economy at a standstill, violence growing, and crowds of protesters undeterred, Mubarak resigned—ending three decades of rule.
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February and March saw street action explode across the region, with daily protests in Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Libya, Oman, Yemen, and elsewhere. The demonstrators demanded an end to oppressive rule, high food prices, and rampant unemployment. They wanted political prisoners released and a halt to internet censorship. And increasingly, as Islamist movements exploited the discontent, they sought the overthrow of authoritarian leadership left over from the Cold War in favor of Islamic-based governments that would rule by Quranic law. By March all-out fighting in Libya broke out, as forces attached to Col. Muammar Qaddafi confronted an organized—and armed—rebel movement that took control of eastern cities. When Qaddafi launched air strikes to attack rebel positions, NATO began preparations for a military reply. The Obama administration initially opposed intervention, but abruptly President Obama about-faced, embracing a military campaign aimed at “regime change.” On March 17 the UN Security Council authorized military strikes on Libya, and on March 20 a British- and U.S.-led NATO assault began. In the months that followed, U.S. warplanes dropped more firepower on Tripoli than
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they had in 2003 while ousting Saddam Hussein from Iraq. House Republicans scolded Obama for consulting more with the Arab League than with Congress, but a steady Western air campaign allowed rebels to put a choke on all but Qaddafi’s last strongholds near Tripoli. The fighting culminated Oct. 20, when revolutionaries captured alive Qaddafi, 69, in his hometown of Sirte but later killed him.
Libya’s eight-month civil war resulted in about 30,000 deaths. But clashes wore on across the region—with 5,000 killed in Syria, nearly 2,000 in Yemen, an estimated 1,000 in Egypt, and over 230 in Tunisia. Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, became the fourth entrenched ruler to go, in a Gulf states–orchestrated plan to transfer power that ended his 33-year regime on Nov. 23. With Islamist militants joining the upheaval, Christians and other religious minorities suffered. Libya, with 180,000 mostly expatriate Christians before the war, by year’s end had an estimated 150 indigenous believers remaining. Egypt’s
Coptic Christians, the largest Christian population remaining in the Middle East, faced repeated attacks on churches and leaders, with 26 Christians killed on Oct. 9 while peacefully protesting the growing violence. Early elections promised more power to Islamists, as radical parties won big in Tunisia and Egypt. The 2011 street proved a potent vehicle for upending old orders, but a volatile and inconstant place to right wrongs or establish liberty. The psalmist guides those undone by 2011 upheaval, continuing in Psalm 46: “The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. … Be still, and know that I am God.” —Mindy Belz DECEMBER 31, 2011
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trauma to triumph In January Jared Lee Loughner attempted to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., opening fire at a Saturday morning gathering in the parking lot of a Tucson grocery store—killing six and injuring 13 others. Among the dead was Chief U.S. District Court Judge John Roll. The critically injured Giffords—shot in the head with what surgeons called “a devastating wound that few survive”—underwent grueling, breakthrough trauma surgery using techniques honed on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Months of rehabilitation restored some of Giffords’ ability to walk and talk. And prompted a bright moment in an otherwise dismal year in Congress when Giffords— smiling and composed—slowly walked into the House chamber to cast her vote in support of a deal to raise the debt ceiling. Her appearance left thick-skinned politicians on both sides of the aisle wiping away tears. With her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly (embracing Giffords), who in May commanded the last mission of space shuttle Endeavor, she served Thanksgiving dinner in November to troops at a Tucson base. “You look strong,” one soldier told her. “I feel strong,” she replied. PHOTOs BY David Lienemann/The White House/ap; James Palka/ap (inset)
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Horrifying images of nearly-starved babies revealed Somalia’s latest crisis: The worst drought in 60 years combined with entrenched militias in the lawless land brought one of the worst famines in decades. As much as a quarter of Somalia’s population fled the country, packing into overflowing refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. The UN estimated that nearly 12 million people in the Horn of Africa needed food. By year’s end, rain and aid had helped ease the crisis in parts of Somalia. But militant and terrorist-linked groups that control large parts of the country continued to block aid groups in many regions, and the UN reported that nearly a quarter of a million Somalis still faced imminent starvation. PHOTO bY scHalk van ZuYDam/aP
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Ten years after the deadliest foreign attack on U.S. soil, families and friends gathered to mark a decade of loss. Memorials for the 9/11 victims in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa., commemorated the 2,977 men, women, and children killed by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. Ceremonies at Ground Zero in New York City marked the opening of the site’s 9/11 Memorial: Reflecting pools sit where the World Trade Center towers once stood, and the pool’s bronze ledges bear the engraved name of every person who died in the 9/11 attacks and the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Family members read aloud the names of the dead, including victims that some never met. Nicholas Gorski remembered: “My father, Sebastian Gorski, who I never met because I was in my mom’s belly.” He added: “I love you, father. I love you for loving the idea of having me. You gave me the gift of life and I wish you could be here to enjoy it with me.” PHOTO BY JeffersOn siegel/siPa Press/newscOm
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An ordinary March day in northeastern Japan ended in extraordinary catastrophe: A 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast on March 11, triggering a tsunami that swept away whole towns in the devastated region of Tohoku. Officials eventually reported more than 18,000 dead or missing in the most powerful quake ever recorded in Japan. The quake moved the island of Hoshnu (the largest in Japan) eight feet to the east, and sped up the Earth’s rotation by 1.6 microseconds, according to NASA. But it was the ensuing tsunami that brought desolation: Thirtyfoot walls of water barreled over concrete barriers and swallowed whole communities—and reached the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, badly damaging reactors and triggering the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Authorities evacuated miles of contaminated communities around the plant, adding to the vast numbers of residents left homeless by the tsunami. A year-end report claimed that a purification device leaked 45 tons of highly radioactive water during December, leaving many Japanese worried that dangers remain. PHOTO BY JIJI PRESS/AFP/GETTY ImAGES
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gave birth to more budget theatrics and political gamesmanship than measurable change. It was destined to be an uphill battle for incoming congressional conservatives. Reaching deficit reduction agreements that could pass a Republican House and a Democratic Senate and then be signed by a Democratic president over and over ended in quagmire. Round 1 in the spring led to a showdown that edged the federal government toward a shutdown. Democrats criticized President Barack Obama for failing to lead while others in his party attacked a House budget that cut funds to programs like a cowboy poetry festival in Nevada. “This is the moment,” Boehner said. “Let’s not kick the can down the road one more time.” TOUGH TIMES: People wait in line (left) at a job fair Sept. 15 in Portland, Ore.; vice President Joe Biden looks out the window as President Barack Obama talks on the phone with house Speaker John Boehner in the Oval Office to discuss ongoing efforts in the debt limit and deficit reduction talks July 31.
His lament came a year after incoming House Speaker John Boehner said to a jubilant crowd on election night, “For far too long, Washington has been doing what’s best for Washington” and pledged a day when government “has earned back the trust of the people.” But the labor pains associated with changing the way Washington works
But there would be many moments in 2011. Lawmakers averted a government shutdown in April just an hour before a final deadline. That deal cut $38 billion from the government’s budget for the current fiscal year. But it was a mere pinprick to the nation’s then $14 trillion debt. It turned out to be even less momentous when the Congressional Budget Office estimated that actual cuts would total only $352 million. The congressional approval
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rating dropped from the 20s to the teens. By summer the government’s borrowing power hit its limit—leading to another messy drama over increasing the nation’s debt ceiling. This time GOP Tea Party freshmen battled the Republican establishment for more cuts. Urged to reach an agreement on $4 trillion in spending cuts, lawmakers finalized cuts that barely topped $2 trillion. That led to the only felt score Washington received in 2011: Standard and Poor’s in August downgraded the nation’s triple-A credit rating for the first time in U.S. history. It came as unemployment held stubbornly at 9 percent, dipping to 8.6 percent in November. The housing market too continued in its state of collapse—from a high of 2 million housing starts per month in 2005, in early 2011 per month housing starts remained under half a million per month, rising slightly toward year’s end and contributing to fractional drops in unemployment. In Washington, the debt ceiling agreement sent most of the hard work of making further cuts to a bipartisan congressional panel. It was dubbed a super committee, but the panel’s name did not come with any super powers. The 12 members received the task of carving $1.2 trillion from the deficit by Thanksgiving—a dirty job of doing in 10 weeks what neither the White House, the Republican-led House, nor the Democratic-led Senate could do in 10 months. To the surprise of no one, the super committee proved too weak to overcome the entrenched positions of both parties. Fresh dirt had not been shoveled onto the super committee’s grave before lawmakers vowed to fight the automatic across-the-board spending cuts the panel’s failure had triggered. “We end this process united in our belief that the nation’s fiscal crisis must be addressed and that we cannot leave it for the next generation to solve,” said a joint statement by the bipartisan heads of the committee. But Washington had kicked the can down the road one more time, and the CBO predicted that spending levels will continue to climb. In the interval since the summer showdown began, the federal debt had risen by more than $1 trillion. —Edward Lee Pitts DECEMBER 31, 2011
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occupy wisconsin The unveiling of Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s budget plan in February was the shot heard around the nation. Tasked with closing a $137 million Wisconsin state budget deficit, Walker called for pension and healthcare contribution increases, collective bargaining power restrictions, and an end to mandatory union dues—austerity measures that inflamed public employee unions. Thousands of demonstrators staked protest positions inside and outside the Capitol in Madison while all 14 Democratic state senators fled the state to prevent a vote on the measure. The standoff ended in March when state Senate Republicans passed the bill after amending it so they could vote without a supermajority quorum. The law now faces several pending lawsuits—and Walker became the target of a recall campaign designed to force a new election. PHOTO BY JusTin sullivan/ GeTTY imaGes
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lunch break quake A 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook cities from Ontario to Alabama just as the lunch hour was ending along the East Coast on Aug. 23. The tremor rattled nerves but only caused minor damage (including structural damage closing the Washington Monument), compared to the destruction and death tolls that resulted from quakes in Japan, India, Turkey, and New Zealand. PHOTO bY evan vucci/aP
solar scandal Solyndra, a California-based solar panel producer that received more than half a billion dollars in federal loan guarantees, closed its doors in August and filed for bankruptcy protection. Solyndra was the first company to receive funding under a program the Obama administration promoted as creating jobs and making America a green energy technology leader. The Government Accountability Office found that the administration hadn’t properly assessed the risk of Solyndra and four other renewable energy companies receiving portions of $38 billion in loan guarantees. PHOTO bY Paul Sakuma/aP
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norway massacre On July 22 Anders Behring Breivik, 32, set off a car bomb outside government offices in Oslo, killing eight people. Breivik then drove to the island of Utoya, where posing as a policeman he opened fire and gunned down 69 others, mostly teenagers attending a Labor Party youth camp. The killing spree was Norway’s worst national tragedy since World War II. Breivik, who described himself as a Knight Templar, called the massacre “atrocious but necessary” to save Norway from an Islamic takeover. In November, psychiatrists labeled him a paranoid schizophrenic who was in a state of psychosis during the onslaught. PHOTO BY HOLM MORTEN/AFP/GETTY IMAGEs
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marriage under fire A tough year for traditional marriage began in February when President Barack Obama directed the Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court. (The law still remains in effect.) The 1996 statute bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages. Two months later, Navy officials directed chaplains to permit same-sex marriage ceremonies at military chapels in states that allow gay marriage. (The officials cited the impending repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which took effect in September.) By May, the Navy suspended the marriage directive after lawmakers warned the plan would violate federal law. Summer brought a decision by the Presbyterian Church USA that opened the door for presbyteries in the mainline denomination to ordain practicing homosexuals. A few weeks later, New York became the sixth state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage. The new law—passed by a Republican-controlled state legislature—doubled the number of people eligible for gay marriage in the United States. PHOTOS BY Jeff CHiu/AP (TOP) AND MAriO TAMA/GeTTY iMAGeS
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south sudan On July 9 the world’s newest country was born: The Republic of South Sudan formally declared its independence from the Republic of Sudan after decades of civil war and millions of lost lives. The largely Christian south voted overwhelmingly in January to separate from the officially Islamic north. The Khartoum-based government in the north had waged relentless war against South Sudan until a peace agreement in 2005. Southerners longed for a formal break. But birth pains and war continued after the jubilant celebration: Conflicts erupted along the disputed (and oil-rich) border between the two countries. By November, an estimated 230,000 Sudanese had fled their homes in border areas, and satellite photos showed Sudanese military enhancing bases near the border after a plane dropped bombs on a refugee camp of 20,000 South Sudanese. After months of optimism, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir conceded the worst fear: a northern invasion that could mean a return to war. PHOTOs BY ROBERTO sCHMIDT/AFP/GETTY IMAGEs AnD MOHAMMED KHADER/XInHuA/ LAnDOv (InsET)
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tornadoes In April the Southeast endured more tornadoes in a single day than in any other 24-hour period in U.S. history. At least 312 tornadoes swept through seven states April 27, killing at least 345 people. After touring Tuscaloosa, Ala., President Barack Obama said, “I’ve never seen devastation like this.” Farther north, a May 22 tornado swept through Joplin, Mo., killing at least 134 people—the worst death toll from one tornado since 1947. PHOTO BY CHarlie riedel/aP
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greece In Greece received a billion bailout package from the EU and the International Monetary Fund to help the nation avoid default, That did little to ease its national debt, which the European Commission predicted in mid- would rise to a staggering . percent of GDP. Neither did it forestall the resignation of Prime Minister George Papandreou. He quit in November unable to quell more than a year of protests, riots, and strikes over austerity measures he imposed in response to demands from international lenders. PHOTO BY PETROS GIANNAKOURIS/AP
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europe in the balance Watching the European debt crisis unfold from the United States is like watching a movie of a slow-motion train wreck, with every day bringing just one additional frame. That’s especially true when you consider that the debt crisis really began in the 1990s, when new and complicated derivative products started masking the true extent of debt for the 17 countries that make up the Eurozone, and who held it. These complicated debt instruments funded profligate government spending in the 1990s that couldn’t be turned off when the tech bust and 9/11 occurred. “Sovereign debt”— or the debt of sovereign nations— exploded. In Ireland, the debt crisis and the housing crisis converged when the government also became a guarantor for banks that financed a housing bubble there. The net effect: As a percentage of GDP, the debt of Eurozone countries grew by more than 30 percent from 2007 to 2010, while some countries saw debt grow much faster. By 2010, Ireland and Portugal both needed bailouts from the International Monetary Fund or other Eurozone countries. If the damage had been contained to Ireland and Portugal, which together account for less than 4 percent of Eurozone economic activity, that might have been the end of the story. But 2011 brought Greece and then Italy to the brink of default. The Greeks added drama to the story by rioting against the austerity measures imposed as a condition for the bailouts. These riots made many in the rest of the world think Greeks were both ungrateful and out of touch with the hard realities of their situation. Their dislocation from reality spooked the global markets, with August and September being two of the most volatile months in stock market history. TRAIN WRECK: Outgoing Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi (left) shakes hands with Mario Monti, Italy’s incoming prime minister, during a takeover ceremony Nov. 16. AleSSIA PIerdOMeNIcO/BlOOMBerg vIA getty IMAgeS
Then came Italy, the country “too big to fail, too big to bail.” Italy’s debt and interest rates soured, quickly becoming unsustainable. The only good news is that Italy, unlike Greece, seemed more willing to take its medicine. The long-embattled Silvio Berlusconi resigned as prime minister, and former EU Commissioner Mario Monti took his place. He quickly set about implementing reforms. Less noted in the financial upheaval is what some call the EU’s “democratic deficit”—a growing gap between an unelected bureaucracy in Brussels and citizens of EU member states who feel increasingly frustrated and impotent in the face of overarching policies. That’s a problem likely to grow worse under the circumstances, as Eurozone and global financial leaders override popular opposition to austerity measures and the policies demanded by leaders of the more powerful EU countries win out over the rest. Even if the Eurozone remedies imposed on countries like Greece and Italy ultimately prove to be correct, “they come with an enormous, corrosive cost to basic concepts of representative government throughout the EU,” said former U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton. By the end of 2011, those issues remained in the balance. Bank of England Governor Mervyn King warned in early December of a “systemic crisis,” adding that “none of us really know” how the Eurozone would survive if the crisis explodes into sovereign default. The United States has a huge stake in the outcome—U.S. money market funds hold more than $900 billion of the short-term debt of European banks—so Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner flew to Europe to be part of a summit of European leaders in December aimed at keeping the crisis from spreading. Jan Eberly, assistant secretary for economic policy at Treasury, said a European recession could choke a U.S. recovery and is “absolutely a source of concern.” —Warren Cole Smith deceMBer 31, 2011
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broken wings The crash of a Russian airliner near the city of Yaroslavl on Sept. claimed the lives of an entire Russian hockey team— and broke the hearts of the entire hockey world. The Lokomotiv team was among the brightest spots in an emerging Russian national hockey league seeking to compete with the NHL for the world’s top talent. In the days following, fans in the region clung to a narrow sliver of hope as the one player who survived the immediate impact of the crash fought for his life in a Moscow burn clinic. But when -year-old Aleksandr Galimov died from his injuries five days after the accident, crowds of mourners numbering up to , spilled into the Yaroslavl streets. Galimov’s passing brought the incident’s death toll to , and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman called the tragedy “a catastrophic loss to the hockey world.”
When Chinese authorities blocked the , members of Beijing’s largest unregistered church from access to their indoor facility, the leaders of Shouwang Church called for an extraordinary move: Meet outdoors. That launched an unprecedented showdown between Chinese Christians and Communist officials in what China expert David Aikman called “the first bona fide civil rights movement in China” since Communists took power. Chinese police arrested hundreds of Shouwang members between April and December as they tried to worship outdoors, saying the meetings were illegal. In a November email, the pastors told the congregation: “We believe that being his church, as long as we wait for God in perseverance and seek his guidance with all our heart, his glory will rise upon his church.”
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legacies lost College football witnessed the sudden firing of two of its most successful active coaches—Joe Paterno (right) at Penn State and Jim Tressel (below) at Ohio State—who lost their jobs amid scandal over something each left undone rather than something they did. Tressel failed to report knowledge of his players receiving inappropriate gifts and money for their athletic performance. Paterno failed to take action on allegations of pedophilia against a member of his coaching staff. Penn State trustees fired him mid-season in November, along with university president Graham Spanier, after authorities arrested former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, who faces criminal accusations from 10 young men who claim he molested them on school property, in his home, and elsewhere. PHOTOS BY Jim PriScHing/AP (PATErnO) AnD mArVin FOng/THE PlAin DEAlEr/lAnDOV
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irene Hurricane Irene churned along the eastern seaboard for three days in August, creating havoc from Florida to Maine. The Category storm left at least dead across affected states and caused flooding and extensive power outages—leaving million without power at one point. Although the storm weakened from initial predictions, cost estimates for damage ranged from billion to billion, making it one of the costliest disasters in the nation’s history. PHOTO BY SANDY MACYS/AP
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afghanistan U.S. forces operating under NATO command surpassed a decade of fighting in Afghanistan—the longest war in U.S. history. The year 2011 was the third-highest year for U.S. casualties there, with over 400 dead, and Aug. 6 marked the deadliest single day of the war for U.S. forces—when 30 U.S. troops died aboard a Chinook helicopter that crashed in Tangi Valley after a rocket-propelled grenade hit the rotor. The Taliban claimed responsibility. Authorities blamed Taliban-linked factions in Pakistan for a deadly day of bombing that killed 60 Afghans in Kabul and wounded over 160 on Dec. 6. Despite progress in the war on terror and improvements to the Afghan economy, President Hamid Karzai told a donor conference in Bonn, “We will need your steadfast support for at least another decade.” PHOTO BY DAVID GOLDMAN/AP
wildfires and drought An abandoned campfire was suspected of sparking the largest wildfire in Arizona’s history. The Wallow Fire started on May 29 and consumed approximately 840 square miles in Arizona and western New Mexico before it was contained in early July. A months-long drought plaguing states from North Carolina to Arizona triggered wildfires, along with water shortages and financial losses. Texas, the hardest-hit state with its driest 12-month period on record, broke previous records with crop and livestock losses estimated at $5.2 billion. PHOTOs BY MArcIO JOse sANcHez (wILDfIre) AND JAY JANNer/AusTIN AMerIcAN-sTATesMAN/wPN
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IRAQ In October President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq by year’s end, down from a peak of 170,000 in 2007 and with nearly 4,500 deaths in the nine-year war. But conflict continues for Iraq’s embattled religious minorities. A 2011 State Department report found Iraq’s Christian community halved from its 2003 level, a staggering depletion of a community that dates back well over a thousand years, wrote 37 members of Congress in a letter to Obama ahead of a December White House meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. PHOTO BY SCOTT PeTerSON/ GeTTY IMAGeS
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shuttling off NASA’s oldest working spaceship, the space shuttle Discovery, re-entered Earth’s atmosphere for the last time in early March, completing its 39th mission since 1984, and tallying about one year’s worth of days in space. A few months later on July 21, the 30-year-old U.S. space shuttle program officially ended with the landing of space shuttle Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center. The NASA program had 135 successful missions and sent more than 300 astronauts into space, a historic run marred by the 1986 Challenger and 2003 Columbia disasters that claimed the lives of 14 astronauts. The United States will now depend on Russia for transport to and from the International Space Station at a cost of $51 million per seat. PHOTO BY Sandra Joseph and Kevin O’Connell/ap
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tom aldredge , July | Emmy-winning stage, film, and TV character actor, seen often in roles as a cantankerous old man (Carmela’s father on The Sopranos, Ozzie in Sticks Bones). and Bones
john r. allison , June | WWII fighter ace who co-led a secret Allied nighttime mission by glider from India into
, May | Hebrew scholar, seminary professor, Bible translator, and editor of the Old Testament translation of the New American Standard Bible. enemy-held Burma, taking only six days to bring in over , troops, supplies, pack animals, and heavy equipment to build an airbase in the jungle from which the British launched devastating ground attacks against the advancing Japanese.
william aramony , Nov. | President of the United Way of America for two decades, with annual donations increasing to more than billion, but jailed in for defrauding the UWA of over million.
george ballas , June | Inventor in of the Weed Eater, better known as the Weed Whacker, an essential tool for lawn care and landscape work—an idea he got from watching his auto go through a car wash.
seve ballesteros , May | Spanish golfing great with more than international tournament wins, including a record European titles, who, Tiger Woods said, was “probably the most creative player who’s ever played the game.”
paul baran , March | Rand company engineer who in the late s discovered the U.S. Defense Department could build a more secure
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, June | Six-footseven actor who played morally principled U.S. Marshall Matt Dillon in two decades and episodes of TV’s Gunsmoke, keeping compassionate law and order in the Kansas frontier cow town of Dodge City in the late s.
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communication system by using a computer network that would break messages into units, then route each unit along any open path, and reassemble them at the destination—a process known as “packet switching.” The government used the method to build its ARPA network, the precursor to the internet.
, July | Veteran character actor remembered best as “old man Marley,” the white-bearded nextdoor neighbor who befriends Macaulay Culkin in the hit movie Home Alone.
john morton blum , Oct. | Prominent Yale historian who specialized in scholarly studies of U.S. presidents, including a surprising revamp of Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt’s typically dismissed importance.
charles kingsley barrett , Aug. | British New Testament scholar, author of Bible commentaries, teacher, and Methodist minister whose opposition to a proposed Anglican-Methodist union in the s gained him recognition.
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david barrett , Aug. | Anglican-priestturned-Baptist and missions researcher who focused on “unreached people groups,” and founding editor of the monumental World Christian Encyclopedia.
john barry , May | Composer of the music scores for James Bond films and winner of five Academy Awards as composer for Born Free, Dances with Wolves, and other films.
d oris belack , Oct. | Veteran stage, film, and television actress best known as nononsense Judge Margaret Barry on Law & Order.
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, Oct. | First tenured black professor at Harvard Law School who resigned his post to protest the school’s hiring practices, noted mainly for his controversial promotion of a body of legal scholarship known as “critical race theory,” claiming that racism is ingrained in laws and legal institutions.
, March | Pakistani legislator, government Minister for Minorities, humanrights advocate opposed to the country’s antiChristian blasphemy law, and a Catholic who defended fellow Christians from the law’s abuses; gunned down in the streets by an Islamic group claiming he was a “known blasphemer.”
pauline betz (addie) , May | Tennis champion of the s, winning four U.S. Open titles and the women’s singles trophy at Wimbledon.
, April | Nobel Prize– winning biochemist who in the late s discovered the liver-deadly hepatitis B virus and later co-developed a vaccine against it that saved untold millions of lives across the world.
osama bin laden , May | Saudi founder of alQaeda who planned the Sept. , , airliner attacks on New York and Washington; shot by U.S. forces in a firefight at his comfortable hideout near Pakistan’s capital.
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, June | Disneyland’s legendary “Pecos Bill,” a hilarious cornball jokester and trickster billed as an Old West traveling salesman in the amusement park’s Golden Horseshoe Revue multiple times a day for nearly years and , performances. At his side most of that time was Betty Taylor as his sweetheart Slue Foot Sue, saloon hostess; she died at age the day following Boag’s death.
, March | Pulitzer Prize– winning syndicated Washington Post political columnist, often called the dean of the Washington press corps, a frequent panelist on national TV news talk shows.
albert brown , Aug. | Oldest living survivor of the WWII six-day, -mile Bataan Death March in the Philippines.
frank buckles , Feb. | The last U.S. World War I veteran of the nearly million Americans who served in that war.
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patricia breslin (modell) , Oct. | Stage, film, and television actress whose roles included wife of a politician (Jackie Cooper) with a talking dog named Cleo in The People’s Choice s sitcom, Meg Baldwin in the soap opera General Hospital, and Laura Brooks in Peyton Place.
walter breuning , April | Reputedly the world’s oldest man at the time of his death, who credited his longevity to eating only two meals a day, working as long as he could, helping others, and embracing change.
delois barrett campbell , Aug. | “The mightiest voice of the greatest female trio in gospel,” as the Chicago Tribune music critic described her. She grew up in church,
with Mahalia Jackson and composer Tommy Dorsey as neighbors, and with her siblings performed as the Barrett Sisters for more than years, with over world tours and the acclaimed documentary, Say Amen, Somebody.
william campbell , April | Film and TV actor probably best known for his roles in the Star Trek series, including as Koloth, a Klingon captain fighting off little Tribble creatures.
warren christopher , March | President Bill Clinton’s first-term secretary of state, who shunned publicity and delegated the nittygritty of negotiations with foreign powers to others.
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, June | Prolific humorousmystery novelist whose popular The Cat Who … series spanned volumes and four decades.
, Jan. | Zany comedian who accompanied his jokes with sound effects from his own mouth and appeared on just about every television variety and talk show from the s to the s; he was a regular on The Andy Williams Show and The ABC Comedy Hour.
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, Feb. | Gospel singer, composer, talent agent, cofounder in of the Gospel Music Association, and TV producer for the GMA Dove Awards.
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, May | Popular child star who played Jackie in the Our Gang comedies, the title role in Skippy, and years later as an adult played editor of the Daily Planet in the four Christopher Reeve Superman films.
, Jan. | Actor who played the angel of death on the TV series Touched by an Angel.
, June | Four-time Emmy Award–winning actor loved by millions as TV’s rumpled, raspyvoiced, one-eyed (for real) homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo, who chomped on cigars, drove an old beat-up car, showed up everywhere wearing his worn-out fabric raincoat, but whose appearance and “Oh, just one more question” took criminals unaware. The Columbo TV movies and series spanned some years.
thomas eisner , March | Cornell biologist who studied insects and other bugs to observe their mating and feeding patterns, and to learn about the built-in chemical repellants and other survival strategies they use to defend themselves, all told notably in For the Love of Insects ().
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harry coover , March | EastmanKodak chemist who accidentally discovered a powerful adhesive compound known today as Super Glue and Instant Krazy Glue.
ken curtis , Jan. | Evangelical filmmaker and church historian, founder of Gateway Films/ Vision Video and Christian History magazine.
al davis , Oct. | Combative, win-at-anycost, supertough-guy Football Hall of Fame owner, general manager, and former coach of the Oakland Raiders whose teams won conference titles and three Super Bowls in his years at the helm, often marked by his feuds with the NFL and some of his own coaches and players.
, Jan. | Lawyer who directed the ,-member Christian Legal Society in the s and later founded and headed Advocates International, a large global network of lawyers championing religious freedom. He was lead counsel in the landmark California Supreme Court case in that closed the door to “clergy malpractice” claims, and was a key architect of the federal Equal Access Act of .
robert p. evans , July | Navy chaplain wounded in World War II, evangelist and early leader in Youth for Christ, and founder and long-time director of Paris-based Greater Europe Mission, also an organizer of Billy Graham’s historic World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin.
geraldine ferraro , March | Democrat from New York elected to Congress in , a feminist and abortion supporter who served three terms and became the first woman nominated as vice president on a major party ticket in , then defeated by Reagan-Bush.
robert ettinger , July | Physics teacher and science fiction writer who founded the cryonics movement, whose advocates believe if a body is quick froz en, it can be restored to life by future advances in medical science; who, after his second wife died in , told the Detroit News, “If both of my wives are revived, that will be a high class problem.” DECEMBER 31, 2011
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preacher, Harvard Divinity School professor of Christian morals, minister of Harvard University’s campus church, and self-identified “celibate gay” who attacked religious fundamentalism and literal interpretations of the Bible.
, Sept. | Emmy-winning actress who for nearly years played nurse Ruth Martin on the ABC daytime drama All My Children.
betty ford , July | Wife of former President Gerald Ford who had a mastectomy weeks after moving into the White House and went public with it to create greater awareness of breast cancer, and who in co-founded a California-based rehab clinic, the Betty Ford Center, following victory in her own struggle with alcohol and addiction to pills.
bruce gordon , Jan. | Actor most memorably known for playing Chicago mob boss Frank Nitti on The Untouchables television series (-).
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, Nov. | Heavyweight boxing champion who in “the fight of the century” in pummeled opponent Muhammad Ali in the th round—Ali’s first loss—but lost the title to George Foreman in , and lost the next two bouts with Ali, though ending with only four losses in professional fights.
george gallup jr. , Nov. | Evangelical Episcopalian who led the well-known opinion polling research company his father founded, expanding it to include sampling and appraising Americans’ views on religion and the level of commitment to their faith.
robert w. galvin , Oct. | Entrepreneur who in took the helm of Motorola, a family business founded by his father that originated car radios and walkie-talkies, and quickly grew it from million in sales to a global electronics giant and pioneer in cellular phone technology with . billion in annual sales when he stepped down in .
betty garrett , Feb. | Actress best known as the flirty girl in love with the shy Frank Sinatra in the MGM musicals, Take Me Out to the Ballgame and
On the Town, and as a regular on the TV series All in the Family and Laverne & Shirley.
edwin gaustad , March | Influential church historian, leading expert on religion in colonial America, and author (The Great Awakening in New England, Religious History of America, and works on theologian Roger Williams). He was a lifelong Baptist who took a strict approach to separation of church and state.
peter j. gomes , Feb. | Thundering theologically liberal black Baptist
michael gough , March | British actor in more than films, most famous for playing Batman’s butler, Alfred Pennyworth.
william m. greathouse , March | Scholarly giant of the Wesleyan holiness movement who served as a Church of the Nazarene pastor, university and seminary president, and the denomination’s general superintendent -.
elliot handler , July | Pioneering toy designer of miniature music boxes, co-founder with his wife in of Mattel, creating the Barbie doll and Hot Wheels, among many others toys.
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, May | Son who transformed his parents’ “Nathan’s Famous” single hot dog stand in Brooklyn’s Coney Island (where frankfurters went for a nickel) into a popular national fast-food chain.
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, Oct. | Storyteller, poet, and writer of popular illustrated children’s books (The Shrinking of Treehorn, Some Things Are Scary).
arthur f. holmes , April | A former Eternity and Christian Century editor, Clemson religion professor, co-author of the influential evangelical feminism book All We’re Meant to Be,, and co-founder of what is now called the Evangelical and Ecumenical Women’s Caucus.
sidney harman , April | Energetic industrialist and philanthropist who with colleague Bernard Kardon in invented the first integrated high-fidelity audio receiver, and grew Harman Industries into a successful global electronics manufacturer.
, Oct. | Influential and sometimes controversial Wheaton College philosophy professor and author (All Truth Is God’s Truth) who countered the anti-intellectualism he perceived in the American church, pressing for integration of faith and learning.
ray h. hughes , April | Former general overseer of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) and president of the denomination’s Lee College (now University), who also served terms as
, Oct. | Co-founder and marketing genius of Apple who over the years introduced a succession of innovative products (the Macintosh
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, Aug. | Two-term Oregon governor and Republican U.S. Senator -; known for his opposition to the Vietnam War and promotion of federal spending on healthcare; an ardent evangelical, pro-life Baptist active in Washington’s prayer breakfast movement.
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, Feb. | British blue-collar worker who in authored Redwall, his first book in an international best-selling -volume children’s fantasy series. The final volume, The Rogue Crew, was published after he died.
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, Sept. | Catholic archbishop of New Orleans for years, staunch anticommunist, leader of U.S. Catholic bishops, an Army chaplain during WWII in Europe, and during years in the Washington archdiocese, a confidante to President Kennedy, whose funeral sermon he preached.
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computer in , which launched the desktop publishing revolution, the iBook in , the iPod and iTunes store in , the iPhone in ), changing the way people interact with technology and making Apple a pop-culture phenomenon as well as one of the world’s most valuable companies.
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, June | Pro Football Hall of Fame great who starred as both an agile runner and powerful blocker and played in four Pro Bowls during seasons with the San Francisco ers, Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Houston Oilers.
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, May | Co-founder in of the discount office superstore chain Staples, an empire that has grown to billion in annual sales, with , employees in countries; he went on to start health food chains Fresh Fields and Nation’s Heartland, both of which he sold to Whole Foods.
, Nov. | Father of five and an artist who in created “Family Circus,” a singlepanel cartoon in a circle featuring traditional values and subtle humor as a mommy, daddy, and their four kids live out the warmth and joys of everyday family life. Son Jeff is continuing the hugely popular cartoon, syndicated in some , newspapers.
frank kameny , Oct. | An early and outspoken leading figure in the gay-rights movement, fired from the Army Map Service in , for which the federal government issued a formal apology in .
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glen kehrein , Nov. | White leader of Circle Urban Ministry in Chicago who lived and worked in a black neighborhood for three decades, transforming relationships
and leading Circle to become a national leader in urban community ministry (he also helped to establish Christian Community Development Association), and with Raleigh Washington wrote the influential tell-all and how-to book, Breaking Down Walls.
tom keith , Oct. | The live on-stage radio voice actor and soundeffects genius who for more than years used homemade props, grocery packages, and his own vocal cords to mimic the sounds of everything from crunching snow and falling trees to clucking chickens and elk calls for Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion.
frequently for helping more than patients commit suicide from to .
harmon killebrew , May | Baseball Hall of Fame home-run slugger— homers in seasons between and for the Washington Senators/ Minnesota Twins and one year with the Kansas City Royals, a record second only to Babe Ruth in the American League when he retired.
jack kevorkian , June | Pathologist and assisted-suicide advocate for the terminally ill, known as “Dr. Death,” imprisoned for eight years and arrested
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catherine clark kroeger , Feb. | New Testament scholar and teacher at Gordon Conwell seminary, author and editor (The IVP Women’s Bible Commentary), evangelical Presbyterian, and founder of Christians for Biblical Equality who advocated equality of roles for men and women in ministry and church leadership.
jack lalanne , Jan. | Exercise and diet practitioner and promoter, gym equipment designer, and muscle-bulging TV show host widely acknowledged as founder of the modern physical fitness movement.
, June | Southern Gospel Hall of Fame singer (with the Gospel Harmony Boys and The Speer Family) and songwriter (“I’m Standing on the Solid Rock” and “Touring That City”).
milton levine , Jan. | Creator in of “Uncle Milton’s Ant Farm,” a . -by--inch farmhouse for ants for childhood education and enjoyment, with more than million sold (today at . each).
leonard lomell , March | Highly decorated WWII hero, a thrice-wounded U.S. Army Ranger, known best for finding and disabling five German -mm guns with a -mile range hidden in an orchard on the Normandy coast in the early hours of D-Day; recognized as the single individual—
charlie louvin , Jan. | Country Hall of Fame singer, half of the legendary Louvin Brothers (his brother died in a auto accident), a Grand Ole Opry favorite with nearly solo albums.
“easy ed” macauley
, Nov. | An early NBA great who starred for the Boston Celtics and at age became the youngest player elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame—a distinction that still holds—who went on to be a TV sportscaster, and, as a Catholic deacon, coauthored a book on how to write sermons.
john mackey , July | Big but speedy tight end, he starred for the Baltimore Colts - , became president of the league’s players union, and was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in .
hugh martin , March | Broadway and film songwriter who composed three classics introduced by Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis: “The Trolley Song,” “The Boy Next Door,” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”
max mathews , May | Known as the “father of computer music,” the Bell Laboratories software engineer in wrote “Music,” a program that allowed an IBM mainframe computer to play a -second composition— the first digitized music.
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, Feb. | U.S. Olympic medal–winning sprinter, an All American on the University of San Francisco football team, and a top allaround All-Pro star during seasons with five mostly terrible teams in the NFL -; inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in .
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the best-seller Aborting America, directed and narrated the pro-life films The Silent Scream and Eclipse of Reason, and as a Reason former atheist found “peace” after converting to Catholicism in .
david nelson , Jan. | Son who starred on his parents’ popular television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
eugene nida , Aug. | Internationally famed linguist, global trainer of missionary translators, and overseer of hundreds of Bible translations as long-time director of translations for the American Bible Society.
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Dec. | Emmy-winning actor best known as “Colonel Potter” in the long-running television sit-com M*A*S*H.
, Oct. | Household synonym for television ratings who transformed his father’s once-obscure Chicago market research firm into a global survey and measurement giant.
joseph e. mortimer jr. , July | Catholic founder and publisher of Voices for the Unborn newspaper who proclaimed the message in billboards and other media that “Abortion Stops a Beating Heart.”
bernard nathanson , Feb. | Former Manhattan obstetrician who presided over an estimated , abortions (including his own child’s), then denounced the practice in , authored
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, Nov. | Born Svetlana Stalina, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s only daughter and last surviving child, who defected to the West in Cold War and wrote two best-selling autobiographies.
, Oct. | Eccentric, unstable, and brutal dictator who ruled Libya for years; long-time sponsor of global terrorist organizations who allegedly ordered the bombing that downed Pan Am flight , killing ; brutally slain in the uprising that toppled his government.
paul picerni , Jan. | Actor best known as Eliot Ness’ righthand man, Lee Hobson, in the s TV series The Untouchables.
robert pierpoint , Oct. | CBS News radio and TV correspondent for more than four decades who covered the Korean War, the White House under six presidents—from Eisenhower to Carter—including the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
norman f. ramsey , Nov. | MIT and Harvard physicist whose work with atoms, molecules, and electromagnetic radiation led to the development of the atomic clock—and a Nobel Prize in Physics—and laid the groundwork for magnetic resonance imaging and GPS applications.
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, March | Antiabortion activist who ran as a Democrat for president in , winning , votes in state primaries; she ran in on the Right-to-Life Party ticket, garnering about , votes in three primaries.
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, Feb. | Prolific character actress known for her roles in television, including as Lulu, wife of Boss Hogg and sister of Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard, as Cousin Bertha on All in the Family, and Jean Kelly on Grace Under Fire.
duke snider , Feb. | Baseball Hall of Fame center-fielder and home run hitter during the Brooklyn Dodgers’ glory years - ( or more HRs in five consecutive seasons, and the only player to hit four home runs twice in a World Series).
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, Nov. | The rumpled, often frowning, bushy-eyebrowed critic of human and corporate behavior who made grouchy teasing a signature art form for a few minutes every week for years as a commentator on Minutes.
william rusher , April | A leading strategist in the postwar rise of political conservatism, seen in the nominations of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan for president and the rise of the Republican right; he was an author, syndicated columnist, and publisher of National Review.
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, Oct. | Alabama Baptist pastor and early leader in the Civil Rights movement, cofounder with Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph David
r. sargent shriver , Jan. | John F. Kennedy’s brotherin-law, founder of the Peace Corps, architect of President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” and George McGovern’s running mate in .
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donald tyson , Jan. | College dropout who became one of the world’s richest men by building his father’s Arkansas chicken business over years into Tyson Foods.
margaret whiting , Jan. | Pop singer whose voice and career spanned seven decades on film, stage, television, and cabarets with more than recordings (“That Old Black Magic,” “Far Away Places,” “Wedding Bells”).
instrumental to reach No. on the Billboard pop charts, and remains the best-selling piano record of all time, with more than million sold.
tom wilson sr. , Sept. | Syndicated cartoonist who created Ziggy, a hard-luck character who has been a mainstay on the comics page of hundreds of newspapers for more than years.
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, July | London-based Anglican preacher, writer, and one of the most influential figures in the formation of the evangelical movement in the th century, whose unwavering commitment to the authority of Scripture and scholarly approach to expositing its message won the respect of generations of Christian university students across the globe, many of them nurtured by his bestknown book, Basic Christianity.
, Jan. | Pakistan provincial governor and human-rights advocate assassinated in Islamabad by his security guard opposed to his defense of a Christian woman accused of blasphemy and sentenced to death.
william stuntz , March | Respected Harvard criminal law professor, author of The Collapse of American Criminal Justice, an evangelical and influential conservative legal scholar known for his teaching of Christian legal theory.
clarice taylor , May | Actress known best as “Grandmother Huxtable” on The Cosby Show and as Harriet on Sesame Street.
elizabeth taylor , March | Academy Award– winning actress who appeared in more than films over years in front of a camera (National Velvet, A Place in the Sun, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).
roger williams , Oct. | Popular and versatile pianist who played for nine U.S. presidents and for Robert Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral; his “Autumn Leaves” was the only piano
dick winters , Jan. | Decorated Army officer and hero whose World War II service was recounted in the best-selling book by historian Stephen E. Ambrose and HBO mini-series Band of Brothers.
paul youngdahl , June | Leader in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and long-time pastor of ,-member Mount Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, the ELCA’s largest congregation.
norma zimmer , May | Endearing lead singer known as the “Champagne Lady” of ABC’s The Lawrence Welk Show from to ; a dedicated Christian since high school, she also often sang at Billy Graham crusades.
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May that “small” opportunity bear fruit in the coming year. And in Sudan: Attacks by Khartoum forces in the Blue Nile area in late have sent , refugees across the border to Ethiopia, where many lived as refugees from similar fighting decades ago. One is Santino Samuel John, grandson of the first Uduk tribal Christian and a cripple from childhood polio. In his father carried him nearly miles to safety when fighting began. In November Santino, now a father, had to flee again—but this time not knowing where his parents were. They had fled away from him, south. At the request of U.S. physician Rob Congdon, health workers at a revived mission hospital—where over , displaced also took refuge in recent weeks—went looking for Santino’s aging parents and found them in the makeshift camp, along with his sister. “They hid in the bush for several days and collected as much food as they could. ... Samuel [the father] was quite pleased HAPPY ENDING: Santino Samuel to hear that John, and his son, wait in Ethiopia’s Santino was Tongo refugee camp. safe in Ethiopia. I gave them one small packet of tea and a small packet of sugar,” reported the worker. Congdon recalled missionary Malcolm Forsberg in the s returning to the area to take communion from Santino’s grandfather, who led a church of new Sudanese believers. Forsberg wrote: “[He] was bending over me and I was reaching out to understand. … The communion service brought it all into focus. … We (missionary and Uduk alike) had sought to make God Himself our goal and He had embraced all our need.” Small stories can have big impact, reminding us as we reflect in this season on Jesus Christ, that the largest man in human history was born of Mary, wrapped in swaddling cloths, and laid in a manger. A
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O --- is an annual challenge. As a news organization we travel in drive—and sometimes overdrive— all year long. The pause and reflect gear that’s needed in December threatens to send some of us through the windshield. In we’ve seen unprecedented streetinspired upheaval, uncommon natural disasters, and unimaginable political weakness at home. Yet as the headlines and headshots of have paraded before me, it’s the small stories I find beckoning. God works through the kingmakers and attention stealers, but He’s shaping news quietly also—in outof-the-way places among unsung heroes. Consider Obaid S. Christ, a Christian leader from Afghanistan living among fellow exiles in New Delhi. He has battled the UN bureaucracy, which has denied refugee status to members of his fellowship, forcing them to return to Afghanistan even as Christians there are being jailed and killed. Last month Obaid was at a shopping mall in Delhi one evening when a companion saw Abdullah Abdullah—a leading Afghan politician who has long stood against the Taliban. In he ran against President Hamid Karzai, won percent of the vote but withdrew from the runoff over what he called the government’s inability to hold fair elections. In the food court Obaid along with six others approached Abdullah and said, “We are Afghan Christians, who are condemned to death because of our Christian faith.” Abdullah replied, “Who condemned you to death because of your faith?” When Obaid answered, “Sharia Law and Afghan government,” Abdullah told him he was not aware of it. “I told him that if you win the next elections you should grant us our Afghan identity and the right to be and live as Afghan Christians in Afghanistan … and then I told him that we will pray for you, and I shared the gospel in seconds with him. He was silent and listening and then said goodbye and left.” May that “small” encounter make a difference in the coming year’s headlines. Here’s another small story, from an evangelical pastor in Pakistan: Organizers for Jamia Islamia, one of the most radical Islamic parties in the country, invited him to speak at a rally in Karachi, the hot bed of terrorism in Pakistan. “I know it was a highrisk call,” the pastor said, but “so far we have not heard any negative report about my sharing the gospel in such platform.”
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Over months after I left college I have yet to find a job in my field, so to get by I’m working three low-paying service jobs and my wife works two. It’s not what we want to do forever, but it is better to obey God and work hard rather than take handouts and face His displeasure.
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(Nov. ) Thank you for the eye-opening article on food stamps. I think the focus on the “participation rate” is a distraction. I do not think there is anything wrong with legally taking advantage of government benefits. The focus should be on setting eligibility requirements at an appropriate level to limit the number of people who qualify. Let’s elect leaders who understand economic forces and have the moral spine to set reasonable participation requirements. , Asheboro, N.C.
“A time for choosing” (Nov. ) I am willing to cut my Social Security check by percent, but only if every federal employee (except uniformed military) from the president on down accepts the same cut. The national debt is increasing by more than trillion per year. How is reducing our deficit by . trillion over years (an average of billion per year) going to get us out of debt?
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“Eyes to see, ears to hear” (Nov. ) As WORLD transitions to its new multi-media platform, with “The World and Everything In It” eventually competing with NPR’s “All Things Considered” over the airwaves, you might take advantage of the NPR’s reputation for left-leaning coverage by pointing out that you would offer coverage of “All things considered rightly.”
makes clear that God hates laziness. And If so many people are on food stamps and folks can get jobs in this economy, only not the rest pay taxes to support the program, the exact jobs they want. then what you have is a giant wealth redisAlto, Mich. tribution system. When people become dependent on the government for food CRIMEAN PENINSULA, BLACK SEA, UKRAINE / submitted by Matt Jackson (or for anything else) then the government can more easily control people. around the world Marble Falls, Texas
I felt a painful pressure in my chest when I read of state governments herding foolish individuals into dependence on government aid. Instead of occupying Wall Street to ask government to give me what hard workers have earned, my plan is to “occupy” my desk for the next five years and obtain an education for a career. , Hilton, N.Y.
“Punching paper walls” (Nov. ) Why shouldn’t someone give in to the Obama administration’s attempt to get more people onto welfare? The Bible Send photos and letters to: mailbag@worldmag.com
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(Nov. 5) Joel Belz is correct regarding the religious test in the Constitution. It exists so that there can be no bar to serve based on belief, but the electorate is free to form its own opinions. I believe
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“Time to go pro” (Oct. 22) I must disagree with your suggestions for the Kendrick brothers in your review of Courageous. It was the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. They shouldn’t change a thing. Hollywood producers and actors will only water down their message that offers, to people desperately hungry for a portrayal of real life, hope and answers in Christ. naThan luibrand Stevensville, Mont.
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“The Smiths and the Browns” (Oct. 22) This column was great advice. These types of insight, easy to understand and grounded in truth, really help the children of God. daniel arbeeny Brooklyn, N.Y.
Great column! My variation on the theme would tell of a two-income couple that forgoes their dream home and gets a mortgage based on his income alone. After two years, when they’ve paid back the down payment they borrowed from their parents, she leaves her job to take on a new one: raising a family in their affordable home. That is riches reaped. Joanne hamilTon Rockville, Md.
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“Confidence game” (Oct. ) Joel Belz’s column about the problems in the White House is right on! We are truly caught up in a reallife tragicomedy. I have to be reminded at times that the hands of the Director are not shortened nor is His ear deaf that He cannot hear our cries for mercy and help.
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hindsight, I figure I was not bothering to wage war on it because of both self-protection and unbelief. How self-protection? That’s where human nature gets weird. God offers joy as a normal fruit, but we ourselves suppress it to coddle our debaucheries in moist, dark places in the soul. We feel safe by doing this: While we are thinking about our fears they cannot hurt us. How unbelief? We don’t believe it will do any good to resist. We don’t believe that what God wants to give us is better than what we crave. We don’t believe God can, or will, do anything about our bondage. So much of our salvation is “not yet” (we have been told) that we should not expect much now: Bear your fallen nature patiently, daily confess it, and prepare to confess it again tomorrow when you will inevitably fall into the same pit. We want moral schools and smaller government and an end to abortion, and we all think about these matters some of the time. But where our minds drift to when alone in the car in five o’clock traffic, that is rubber-meets-the-road reality—and Jesus came to deal with it. By deal with it, do you mean just forgive it? Or do you mean nuke it? There is the , question: How much personal sanctification is available in the blood of Christ in this lifetime? How much mastery? Where is the ceiling? What is the “already” part of salvation— a treading of water, with forensic forgiveness? Or is it being transformed from one degree to another, in a way that your husband or wife would notice the difference? In a way that you could sit at your computer and be free? Is there a doctor in the house who can teach spiritual warfare? Is there anyone who believes it does any good? Chaplain Davis is concerned that preaching to a person week after week that he should put his trust in Christ, but then adding that he won’t necessarily get much traction until Christ returns, will “send the wrong message, since we remember the last thing we heard.” Unless the bugle sounds a distinct note, who will be roused for battle? So, try this New Year’s resolution: Find a friend who is believing Christ for all He’s worth and seeing victories. Grab onto his coattails and say, “I can see that God is with you. May I walk with you a mile or two, brother? I am weary of failing and I want to run this race.” No more lazy nostrums, no more empty cisterns, no more gaping holes. A DECEMBER 31, 2011
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On the other hand, some guests (and listeners) don’t talk back. In February another MSNBC host, Lawrence O’Donnell, was interviewing Michigan ex-Governor Jennifer Granholm. He stated, “The Republican Party is saying that the president of the United States has bosses, that the union bosses this president around. Does that sound to you like they are trying to consciously or subconsciously deliver the racist message that, of course, a black man can’t be the real boss?” Granholm replied, “Wow, I hadn’t thought about the racial overtones.” And I hadn’t thought, until New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd educated me, that GOP budget-cutters were “cannibals … vampires … zombies … the metallic beasts in Alien.” (She mixed all of those metaphors into one memorable paragraph.) I also learned from Katie Couric that Americans will realize Islam is not a problem when we watch “a Muslim version of The Cosby Show.” But maybe the tilt of these mainstream opinion merchants isn’t so important anymore. When Jill Abramson in June became editor of The New York Times, she said her rise was like “ascending to Valhalla. In my house growing up, the Times substituted for religion. If the Times said it, it was the absolute truth.” Happily, almost no one has that kind of faith anymore. And yet, people sometimes think they’re getting facts in news reports. That’s why a report by correspondent Ray Suarez on PBS’ NewsHour astounded me. Suarez spoke of communist Cuba’s “impressive health outcomes … no doctor shortage … care that’s both personal and persistent.” Right. In reporting from Havana in I talked with doctors serving as cab drivers and bellhops to get money for their families. Some churches hosted illegal clinics because parishioners couldn’t get help through official channels. A pharmacy’s shelves were mostly naked. A hospital had a BYOX policy: Bring your own X-ray film. Happy new year, in a land that’s still mostly free. A
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I’ to relish the worst mainstream journalism of the past months. For the th year in a row I’m a judge for the Media Research Center awards, and this year the finalists taught me a lot. I thought President Barack Obama’s popularity was evaporating, but ABC’s Christiane Amanpour called him “full of sunny optimism, very Reaganesque,” and Lara Spencer on the same network asked, “Is President Obama a baby whisperer? … Watch as the First Lady tries to quiet down the fussy little friend. … She then hands the bawling baby to the big man and, presto, the tot is simply transfixed.” I thought Middle Eastern demonstrators want basic human rights and Midwest state workers hope to retain above-average paychecks, but New York Times reporters Michael Cooper and Katharine Seelye equated Wisconsin with Tunisia, ABC’s Diane Sawyer saw “Cairo moved to Madison,” and ABC’s Amanpour saw both efforts as “people power making history. A revolt in the Midwest and a revolution sweeping across the Middle East.” I didn’t realize that Tea Party folks were terrorists, but New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman equated them to Hezbollah, and within a week fellow Times columnist Joe Nocera was writing that “Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people” and wear “suicide vests.” MSNBC’s Chris Matthews similarly observed that “the GOP has become the Wahhabis of American government.” Matthews didn’t stop there. Last month he commented on Republican voters: “They hate. … Their brains, racked as they are by hatred, they lack the ‘like’ mode.” He could have been describing himself when he complained about talk show hosts who “see the other end of the field as evil, as awful. Not just disagreeable but evil.” At least television pundits, unlike their print equivalents, sometimes have guests who talk back. Matthews fell into a rant when questioning Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele: “You go to a Democratic convention … and black folk are hanging together and having a good time. … You go to a Republican event, you get a feeling that you are all told … ‘Don’t get together, don’t crowd, you’ll scare these people.’ … Did you fear that if you got together with some other African-Americans, these white guys might get scared of you?” Steele replied, “No! What are you talking about?”
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