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  By Richard W. Cummins (Pasco, WA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities (Hardcover) Adam Kahane (2004) said that a friend of his told him that the old "1960s slogan `If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem' actually misses the most important about effecting change. The slogan should be, he said, `If you're not part of the problem, you can't be part of the solution.' If we cannot see how what we are doing or not doing is contributing to things being the way that they are, then logically we have no basis at all, zero leverage, for changing the ways things are--except from the outside, by persuasion or force" (pp. 83-84). Any problem is part of a system, in other words, and if we are experiencing the problem, then we must, by definition, be a part of the problem. This book explores this concept and provides many tools and examples to he...

  41 of 48 people found the following review helpful: Chronicles of a desert deity, February 12, 2002 By Stephen A. Haines Jack Miles has responded to a number of theses concerning the character of his deity. Many biblical critics have suggested the early books present several gods lumped together by editorial fiat. Miles insists that the god of the Hebrew Bible is but one. That circumstance, uniqueness and solitude, is the cause of various character changes this god went through in the course of history. He has neither siblings nor peers. It's a very human story, but Miles doesn't portray this god as a human personification with superior powers. On the contrary, this god is unaware of the powers he possesses until he tries them out. They become, predictably, addictive with the passage of time. As the god develops, he exhibits changes in character that would be considered "growing up" in people. Finally, for unknown reasons, but perhaps just fatigue, the god retires...

 

R eviving the old dreams , the remnants of a post Baltic self . The quiver of what was lost by who ,and for what ? Some rude touch by a dysfunctioning belligerent Eros. That randy old man with his sharp cuts of self.

 E xceptional physical embodiment ... makes Gwyneth's win for Shakespeare in love look like the second rate train wreck that it was.

A little bit of empire does battle against the entire Zulu race. Surprisingly good, and who knew Michael Caine could act ?

  This film brushed against me and all at once departed staying annoyingly just out of reach , and unusually beyond description . Brad was brad , Casey Affleck was out standing in his affliction .