Word: creationism
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...assault was one of the most boneheaded decisions ever made by a municipal authority -- Keystone Kops reinventing Vietnam as a minifarce in which a neighborhood is destroyed in order to save it. For Cudjoe, the big bang represents creation in the form of a mysterious survivor, a boy known as Simba Muntu (Lion Man) seen walking away from the burning wreckage. The search for Simba provides the novel with an open-ended structure that allows Wideman to display his talents...
Bloom admits that a feminine J is supposition. Among his arguments: Genesis contains the only known account from the ancient Middle East of the creation of woman -- six times as long as the story of Adam's advent from a "mud pie." Furthermore, the women of the Pentateuch (Eve, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Tamar, Zipporah) are strong; none of the men (Abraham, Jacob, Moses) are particularly good looking. Circumstantial evidence, but in an era of enhanced interest in feminist creativity, it is not very hypothetical to assume that Bloom's work will draw a wide and interested audience...
...death knell has sounded for Communism," he dismissed the years of "noisy perestroika" as a waste that brought about an "ugly, fake, election system" with just one goal: preserving the Communists' power. Arguing that the Soviet empire "sucks all juices" from the Russian heartland, Solzhenitsyn called for the creation of a Slavic state comprising the republics of Russia, the Ukraine, Belorussia and the northern parts of Kazakhstan, which is mostly populated by Russians. The other republics, he wrote, should secede...
...initial creation of a list has pretty much been finished. The list is now in the process of being reduced," the source said, adding that the list is notably diverse in terms of race and gender...
Harvard Law School officials yesterday announced the creation of a fellowship program in public international law and the names of the first 10 recipients of that award...