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...Yale Wins Either Way," (Sept. 16) Daniel M. Suleiman '99 writes that the "Yale Five" (five Orthodox students who are threatening suit against Yale for the right to live off campus) "are tacitly judging all of their classmates" and are averse "to modern people of any religion, color or creed, including other Jews...
...tacitly judging all of their classmates who can, in good conscience, live with members of the opposite sex in adjacent rooms, because they refuse to live anywhere near them. They have not singled out a particular group; instead, their aversion is to modern people of any religion, color or creed, including other Jews. The Yale Five's unease results from their peers. And Yale has said for the time being that such an aversion is unacceptable...
...name is Freddy Heflin, and in Cop Land--a sharp-eyed character study and virtuoso acting class masquerading as a violent melodrama--he is played by Sylvester Stallone. This time Hollywood's longest lived action star is not battling Apollo Creed or the Vietnamese or a killer mountain, but his own rep as a stolid, vaguely comic, pre-Modernist hunk-lunk. Freddy is surrounded by guys who think they're men because they carry guns in the big city. But Sly is crowded too--by an intimidating gang of quality thesps, including Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta...
...Mormon Church is by far the most numerically successful creed born on American soil and one of the fastest growing anywhere. Its U.S. membership of 4.8 million is the seventh largest in the country, while its hefty 4.7% annual American growth rate is nearly doubled abroad, where there are already 4.9 million adherents. Gordon B. Hinckley, the church's President--and its current Prophet--is engaged in massive foreign construction, spending billions to erect 350 church-size meetinghouses a year and adding 15 cathedral-size temples to the existing 50. University of Washington sociologist Rodney Stark projects that in about...
...play a role, in the economic and social development of the West--and indeed, because of the spread of Mormons everywhere, of the nation as a whole." And in a country where religious unanimity is ever less important but material achievement remains the earthly manifestation of virtue, their creed may never face rejection again...