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To: frankw1900 who wrote (39910)	4/17/2004 3:23:32 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793750

Protein Wisdom - Taxing Times From the cutting room floor, ABC News, continued: 20/20's Barbara Walters: "A fresh controversy surrounds your husband's campaign, Teresa, but this time it involves you -- and specifically, your refusal to release your tax returns to the press." Teresa Heinz Kerry: "Yes." Barbara Walters: "Your husband very publically called for a full financial disclosure from President and Mrs. Bush, who have since complied. Does it worry you, then, that your refusal to release your records -- given all the speculation that your money is helping to finance your husband's campaign -- will make the Senator appear hypocritical?" Teresa Heinz Kerry: "Well, firstly, I'm not running for public office, Barbara. So I honestly don't see how my personal finances are anybody's business but my own. John and I have a prenuptial agreement, and consequently, we have always filed our returns separately. This is nothing new." Barbara Walters: " -- and secondly?" Teresa Heinz Kerry: " -- and secondly, there's nothing I do can to make John look any more hypocritical than he already looks. I mean, we've reached the point of diminishing return on that score, don't you think? And besides, I really do get off on being Johnny's mysteriously wealthy Sugar Momma. I'm like a sassy Bond villianess. And, y'know, how bitchin' is that...?"

To: frankw1900 who wrote (39910)	4/17/2004 9:05:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793750

The problem for us, and the major part of the Muslim world, is that madrassas teach a curriculum which is about 1000 years out of date. The basic curriculum position is to teach a belief in the superiority of faith and rulers over reason and self rule. Thus science and critical thinking have negative value in this scheme. This is a position which was totally out of date in Europe by 1600 This is an unfair slam on the European Middle Ages. Don't forget that Aristotle (in Latin translation), St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas were very influential philosophers for the High Middle Ages. The use of argument, reasoning and rhetoric stood high in medieval curricula.