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This week the Vatican is issuing a long-expected document that clearly challenges liberation theology and brands it in its more extreme forms as a perversion of the Christian message. Upholding the primacy of traditional Catholic teaching, the document aims at alerting "the faithful to the deviations . . . damaging to the...
Joan Didion's fourth novel carries a few unnecessary burdens. There is the silly pink book jacket, the pompous flap copy ("a precise and pitiless exploration of lives lived in the harsh glare of public scrutiny") and, worst of all, the title, which is as ostentatious as that of...
Nevertheless, Bok and Fox should go beyond their statements of last week. Although helpful in alerting students to offensive behavior, the public declarations do not explore why such attitudes exist, and how they might be changed. The University's implicit acceptance and subsidization of all male clubs--including the Pi...
In the Pentagon's scramble to put together an invasion in 48 hours, press coverage simply got little consideration. The sensible solution would have been to have a small pool of journalists along, tipped off in advance, sworn to secrecy, perhaps even sequestered. The pool members would have been...
Still, Hollywood seems to be growing more safety-conscious, if not more cautious. The Screen Actors Guild reports that anonymous calls alerting it to unsafe sets have increased dramatically since the Twilight Zone accident. And stunt people - traditionally loath to turn down stunts for fear of losing a job, or...