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...person who is wearing a cross, carrying a Bible or standing behind a pulpit is usually mentally deranged, at best incompetent...
HELEN FRANKENTHALER: A PAINTINGS RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. In the '50s Frankenthaler's lyrical washes of color had a decisive influence on abstract expressionism; today she ranks as America's best-known living woman artist. These 40 canvases from four decades show why. Through...
When Pope John Paul I suddenly died after just 33 days in office in 1978, Rome's tireless rumor mill lurched into high gear. Vatican fumbling and secrecy only compounded the confusion. The whispers about skulduggery revived in 1984, when author David Yallop speculated in his best-selling book, In God's Name, that the Pope had been poisoned by one of half a dozen suspects with various motives...
...researchers the most urgent need may be to regain control of studies being conducted to test the efficacy of various AIDS drugs. Now that doctors have medications that work, they need to find what works best. But for the past several years, experimental drugs have first been available on the AIDS black market, through which patients who felt they had little to lose began their own treatment programs. The FDA, responding to intense public pressure to demonstrate both compassion and efficiency, has established a "fast track" for the approval of AIDS drugs. However, that streamlining may have permanently distorted...
Sometimes rulers decide it is best to leave well enough alone. Filipinos have long bristled at the colonialistic implications of calling their country the Philippines, in honor of Philip II of Spain. During the regime of Ferdinand Marcos, there was a campaign to rename the country Maharlika, a native word meaning noble and aristocratic. Plans for the rechristening proceeded apace until an academic pointed out that the word was probably derived from Sanskrit. Fine, its proponents said, Sanskrit is a non- imperialist language. Yes, replied the scholar, but Maharlika was most likely derived from the words maha lingam, meaning "great...