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Subplots involving Parnell Grimes, the director of Mercury’s funeral home, also compromise the harmony of the tale. The necrophiliac undertaker and his wife, who dies a little death for him at orgasm, may serve as a counterpoint to Finus and Birdie’s unfulfilled sexualitiesâ?...

Author: By Alexandra B. Moss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Southern Ghosts | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

In the past, Pakistani religious parties seldom grabbed more than five percent of the vote. The country's intelligentsia likes to claim this is because, once all the hollering dies down and ballots are cast, Pakistanis are moderate, secular folk. In fact, most Pakistanis are poor, unschooled people who traditionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: General's Election | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

At age 175, Abraham dies and is laid out next to Sarah, who preceded him, in a plot he has bought in a town later called Hebron. Both sons attend his funeral.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Abraham | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

A more thoroughgoing theological initiative has been undertaken by the Catholic Church. Christianity's position on Abraham had remained depressingly consistent since Justin Martyr's condemnation of the circumcised, but theologians at the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65, shaken by the Holocaust, reread Paul's letters. They noted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Abraham | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

The Lancelot of economics, Alan Greenspan, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II last week. But some top economists worry that the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman has moved too slowly to slay the dragon they hear stirring: deflation. The term describes an economic slough of despond in which capacity exceeds demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time to Break a Lance on Deflation? | 9/29/2002 | See Source »

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