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The Monitor's View: Obama and the contraception mandate
The Obama administration plans to exempt only certain types of religious institutions from the health-care law's mandate for coverage of birth control. But in doing so, it redefines religion, which not only steps on a basic liberty but a basic understanding of religion's role in society.
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Bill Drayton sees a world where 'everyone is a changemaker'
Bill Drayton founded Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, which now has put about 3,000 social entrepreneurs into the field all over the world, three decades ago. A college professor once described him as having "the determination of Job and the brains of a Nobel laureate." Says Drayton: "The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world."
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In Pictures: Real-life wonder women
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In Pictures: John Lennon anniversary
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A typhoon, a baby, and spiritual light
A Christian Science perspective.
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We Two: Victoria and Albert
Gillian Gill offers a fresh examination of the remarkable marriage of Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert.
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The Rose of Sebastopol
A shy, stay-at-home young woman becomes the unlikely heroine of this highly entertaining historical novel.
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What book reviewers are saying this week
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