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...think it's interesting that many of evolution's most ardent academic defenders have moved away from the old claim that evolution is God's means to bring life into being in its various forms. More of them are saying that a truly informed belief in evolution entails a stance that the material world is all there is and that the natural must be explained in purely natural terms. They're saying that anyone who truly feels this way must exclude God from the story. I think their self-analysis is correct. I just couldn't disagree more with their...
...Perhaps Tanna's most fascinating dialogue between the old and the imported can be found an hour's bumpy drive south of Lenakel, past beaches covered in glittering black sand, to Green Point. About 3,000 villagers here are ardent members of the John Frum Movement, which follows the teaching of a European-looking spirit-man who they say appeared to senior men in the area just before World War II, urging them to reject missionary rule and return to kastom living. Green Point men, sitting under the fern-clad branches of an enormous banyan tree, say Frum's original...
...staff of General Douglas MacArthur, for whom he coined the rallying cry "I shall return" that followed MacArthur's retreat from the Japanese-besieged Philippines in 1942. In 1945 Romulo persuaded the framers of the U.N. charter to endorse independence for colonized countries, and he became an ardent advocate for Third World concerns...
...busy, triumphant night for Harold Ezell. Outfitted in a blue blazer and striped tie, the Government's most ardent alien chaser jumped into a helicopter and rode along as it sent a piercing searchlight across the hills and arroyos south of San Diego. Then he scrambled into a pickup truck and peered through a nightscope to watch his agents tear through the chaparral in Dodge Ram Charger "war wagons" to overtake groups of Mexicans trying to sneak into the U.S. Later, he proudly counted the day's total arrests: 2,643 illegal immigrants. Nudging a companion, Ezell declared...
...Governor. A former FBI agent, the soft-spoken and methodical Lucas was a Democrat when elected sheriff and then executive of Wayne County, which includes Detroit. He drew praise and criticism alike for cutting the county debt by laying off workers and selling a financially hemorrhaging public hospital. An ardent supporter of Ronald Reagan's, he switched parties 17 months ago, calling the G.O.P. the true party of opportunity...