1. Sixty–five percent say employers are falling short on providing retirement benefits –– no wonder working families oppose privatizing Social Security.

2. Rather than be obsessed, he said, with wonder–working and extraordinary spiritual powers, the greater miracles consist in learning the patience that curbs the wild stirrings of anger, or the exclusion of ravening gloom from the heart.

3. Romania libera, Curentul and Gandul inform that about 100,000 pilgrims gathered at the Nicula Monastery, Cluj County, to attend the religious service on Dormition Day and to kiss the wonder–working icon of Virgin Mary.

4. Pinker pointed to past episodes when Bush has alluded to faith in his rhetoric, such as a reference in the 2003 State of the Union address to the "power, wonder–working power, in the goodness and idealism of the American people." The phrasing echoes "There Is Power in the Blood," a Christian hymn that refers to "wonder–working power in the precious blood of the Lamb." "Having failed by every secular standard, Bush is trying to convince the remaining people who will listen that he has succeeded by an inscrutable divine one," Pinker said in an e–mail, adding: "These are, no doubt, the emotions he‘s feeling, but it also can‘t hurt to frame his presidency in touchy–feely terms rather than a hardnosed accounting of successes and failures." Post a Comment Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site.