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...renovated area of the school's infirmary. Faulkner's enrollment, however, seemed inevitable, and as she prepared gamely for her desired ordeal, Citadel graduates like Buck Limehouse (class of '60), now chairman of the South Carolina department of transportation commission, tried to put their disappointment in a historical context: "It's sort of like the Southern cause," he said. "Even if you know you're going to lose the war, if you believe in the principles you're fighting for, you fight anyway...
...tell you the truth, we haven't even thought about it in that context," Keller said...
Adams wrote several articles and books, including On Being Human Religiously, The Prophethood of All Believers and An Examined faith: Social Context and Religious Commitment. He translated and interpreted German theologians Paul Tillich and Ernst Troeltsch...
...Hale view has a potential ally in Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who last week hinted that he would soon raise short-term interest rates for the fifth time this year. In this instance, he blamed again the incipient presence of inflation. But Greenspan also sees a more global context for the pressure on rates. "If you get a significant increase for demand for capital in the world, real interest rates will tend to rise if the savings are not forthcoming to offset that," he told Congress in June...
Rounding off the work is Paganini's Moto perpetuo composed in the context of an era obsessed with finding a perpetual motion machine. Fortunately for violinists, Paganini's perpetual motion piece does have an end. Though Shaham sets no speed records here, falling shy of Michael Rabin's definitive account by about 15 seconds, the clarity that he achieves amidst the unceasing cascade of notes will set the standard for some time to come...