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...seminaries and elite universities. John Dominic Crossan, a Bible scholar at DePaul University, notes that there was an "implicit deal -- you scholars can go off to the universities and write in the journals and say anything you want." Now, he says, "the scholars are coming out of the closet," demanding public attention for the way they think. Among the latest such works are Crossan's Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (HarperSanFrancisco; $18), Burton Mack's The Lost Gospel (HarperSanFrancisco; $22) and The Five Gospels (Macmillan...
...Beer was all over the floor. When I went to see what was going on, someone was coming out of my closet," said El-Amin. "I'm still upset...
...just as the argument about gays in the military was putting the gay cause at center stage for the first time in U.S. history. With its aggressive scorn for Ronald Reagan and Republicanism; for Mormons and moralizing; and its demonic view of lawyer- dealmaker Roy Cohn, a gay-bashing closet gay and a top-level G.O.P. influence peddler for more than three decades, Angels disproved truisms about the unmarketability of political drama. Instead it compellingly reasserted the theater's place in public debate. Hearteningly to theater partisans, Angels generated excitement about a drama comparable to the biggest buzz about musicals...
...acknowledge that forgetting something does not erase it, and years do not smooth the pain of buried memories. We forget things all the time; this doesn't mean they didn't happen. Suppose you went sledding with some friends last Christmas. You might not remember until you clean your closet and uncover the snowpants you wore, or until someone asks whether you had been sledding lately...
...takes enormous resilience, determination and courage (both for the patient and for people closet to her) in order to seek obtain and carry through on treatments; there are often false starts (unhelpful medications, useless therapists, etc.) and tough times ahead before improvement occurs...