richards | July 25, 2012
Los Angeles July 25, 2012 by Zev Hurwitz Serious study of the Talmud requires a high level of devotion and consistency. Finishing all 63 volumes of rabbinical discourse in ones lifetime is an admirable feat. Completing the whole series in a little more than seven years is almost unfathomable.
richards | July 25, 2012
By KASIE HUNT Associated Press LONDON (AP) - Mitt Romney - a one-term governor untested on the world's political stage - faces high stakes in the coming week during visits to England, Israel and Poland. It's a trip that amounts to an international audition.
richards | July 25, 2012
The Pew center report on Asian American religions finds Hindu Americans are majority of Indian Americans; they vote predominantly Democratic; majority celebrate Christmas; only 19 per cent say they attend worship services at least once a week; are way ahead of Jewish Americans in both education and family income. Aziz Haniffa reports. Close on the heels of its seminal report on the Rise of Asian Americans last month, the highly-respected Pew Research Center last week brought out yet another comprehensive report -- this time a survey of the religions of Asian Americans -- titled Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths, which found that Hindu Americans constitute 51 per cent of the Indian American population, but only 19 per cent said they attend worship services at least once a week
richards | July 25, 2012
In 1988, Jimmy The Greek Snyder (in)famously stated that the prowess of African-American football players could be traced to slavery, saying the black is a better athlete to begin with because hes been bred to be that way [They] jump higher and run faster. The reaction to such obviously racist remarks was fast and furious: Amid the uproar, CBS Sports fired him. So when Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson predicted this month that African-American and West Indian track athletes would dominate the London Olympics because of the genes of their slave ancestors, I paid little attention, thinking there was no way this could become a viable conversation yet again.
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