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From her home in Roswell, Georgia, Nedra Paugh, the 64-year-old grandmother of JonBenet Ramsey, indignantly surveys the media frenzy in Boulder, Colorado. Her granddaughter's childhood, which the papers depict as abnormal, was nothing of the sort, she says. Referring to a story in the Globe purportedly offering photographic evidence (a bruised elbow) that JonBenet had been physically abused, the incredulous grandmother tells TIME, "I know all about what happened. I was there. JonBenet had climbed up on a stool to look at her hamsters in their cage, and she somehow pulled the whole cage down...
This past week, the Veritas forum discussed Christianity at Harvard. As a practicing Christian at the College, I was disturbed to read that organizers and audience members felt the participants in the panel "depict[ed] Christianity very accurately" and that the "same theme" emerged...
...simply impossible to depict all of Christianity accurately in a few hours; moreover, all Christians haven't found a single theme in the thousands of years we've had to try. Although I wasn't able to attend the Veritas panel, I suspect the resulting unity was achieved more through exclusion than through a real consensus on such a complex and personal subject...
...moved by the conviction of the panel," he said. "They depict Christianity very accurately...
...presidential election year, the Senate is like a fun-house mirror image of the race for the White House. Some races faithfully reflect the top contest; others are distorted versions of it. At the top of the ticket are two politicians moving to the middle who will try to depict the Other Guy as a closet extremist. Such is the situation in many states, including New Jersey, where Democratic Representative Bob Torricelli is trying to tar Representative Dick Zimmer with the Gingrich brush while Zimmer is dismissing Torricelli as an unreconstructed liberal. In North Carolina there is an ideological contest...