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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most prolific of American forgers, displayed meticulous attention to detail while adding to the extant records of U.S. history from Aaron Burr through Abraham Lincoln. Britain's William Henry Ireland successfully duplicated Shakespeare, passing off manuscripts of Hamlet and King Lear, until his own addition to the canon, Vortigern and Rowena, proved his undoing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fakes That Have Skewed History | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

Consider, for instance, a passage from one of the newest additions to the canon of Harvard literature--Splendor and Misery by Faye Levine '65. The scene is 1963, in a Lowell House room, where Levine's protagonist Sarah is taking advantage of the parietal rules' provision for afternoon visiting hours. Levine notes that Sarah's boy friend has given her a copy of the Kama Sutra and she describes the consequences...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Veritas Between the Sheets | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

Sister Agnes and Archbishop Szoka first clashed last year when she ran unsuccessfully in a Democratic congressional primary. The Pope clearly indicated that priests and nuns should not hold public office, and those who do so should, according to current canon law, first get permission from their bishop. Mansour did not request permission, and says she did not know this was necessary. During the primary she tartly dismissed canon law as an "old set of rules that are invoked when somebody wants to invoke them, and ignored when someone wants to ignore them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nun vs. the Archbishop | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...that they compel her to step down. Unless a compromise can be worked out, the issue will end up at the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes. The congregation's deliberation would take months, if not years, and by then the church's new code of canon law will be in effect. If the congregation goes by the book, it will back Szoka. New canon No. 285:3 "flatly forbids a nun or priest to hold public office in any circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nun vs. the Archbishop | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

Under the Vatican's code of canon law, priests can hold government jobs if they have received permission from their local bishop. Two priests have prominent positions in the Nicaraguan Cabinet, Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann of the U.S. Maryknoll Society, and Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal, a secular priest and noted poet. Four others hold high government posts. But in 1981 Nicaragua's bishops withdrew their approval. A truce was arranged: the priests would remain in office, but they would have to wear civilian clothes when carrying out official duties and not perform religious functions. However...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vatican: Into the Central American Volcano | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

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