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...plaid shirt, stood on a stepladder with a Bible in one hand and a megaphone in the other gamely fielding questions from an angry crowd on topics from evolution—“It’s against the Bible, and it doesn’t conform to science as we know it”—to the crowd’s favorite, homosexuality—“the vile affection of a reprobate mind.” The young woman handing out fliers admitted to me that she didn’t particularly enjoy...
...sustain this program in its current form over the course of the next several years,” Smith wrote. “Few faculty members are likely to develop new courses for the Core program, and many of the current Core courses will be reshaped and reworked to conform to new General Education guidelines.” To provide students graduating under the Core with a “rich and robust menu of courses,” the committees governing the Core and Gen Ed—the Standing Committee on the Core Program and the Standing Committee...
...develop the Core, detailed descriptions of each Core area, recommendations about when to take Cores, and requirements broken down based on concentration. There was one sentence that was sort of applicable to my sojourn: “Before a course can be approved for the Core Curriculum, it must conform to faculty guidelines specifying the educational goals of each component of the program.” Ohhh…I get it now.Nevertheless, march I did. I wasn’t sure that anybody would listen or talk to me. Actually, I don’t think anybody talked...
...Berlin Wall. Instead, I found a stark block of residential towers and an overgrown park set well off Friedrichstrasse, the thoroughfare where Checkpoint Charlie used to stand. The highly experimental architecture of the museum, which opened in 2001, was all the more startling for its failure to conform to its location, a disharmony that filled me with both confusion and understanding. The building didn’t fit in at all, and yet I realized that there was no way that such a museum could fit in, either in terms of its design or the history it depicted. Going inside...
Recalling the Vatican's medical reports during John Paul's last days, Pavanelli writes: "I'm surprised that I myself failed to critically examine the information. I let my perceptions conform to the hope of recovery and the official version, without confronting the clinical signs that I was seeing." While the Vatican had expressed most of its concern about breathing difficulty, which was alleviated with a tracheotomy, Pavanelli says a readily apparent loss of weight, and an apparent difficulty to swallow, was not being addressed. "The patient had died for reasons that were clearly not mentioned. Of all the problems...