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Brown begins by carefully defining the Jewish role in the death of Jesus. "In a context of hostile inter-Jewish feelings," he says, "how can one dismiss as unthinkable a desire on the part of some fellow Jews for severe action against Jesus, a troubling religious figure?" He stresses that many ordinary Jews sympathized with Jesus, and that only the leaders were responsible for the death sentence. "I'm not talking about guilt," he says, merely "responsibility." Explains Brown: "Those who contribute to the execution of an accused are responsible for that death. They are guilty only if they know...
Given the pressures on habitat, some zoologists maintain that captive breeding of tigers and their eventual reintroduction into the wild should be pursued as a way to keep the species alive. Schaller and many other ; conservationists dismiss this approach as both inefficient and unrealistic. Tigers learn from their mothers subtle details about hunting that would be difficult for human mentors to teach. And once tigers have disappeared from an area, Schaller notes, it becomes extremely difficult to convince villagers that they should welcome the animals back. "It would cost millions to breed and reintroduce tigers," says the biologist. "If Asian...
...departments are well aware of the tasks facing them, I am not convinced that such a commitment exists university-wide. In recent discourses on faculty diversity and multiculturalism, there has been a tendency by some critics to exploit the successes of the Afro-Am department in order to dismiss all further claims for hiring "minority" faculty or expanding ethnic studies...
...Detroit judge declined to dismiss the last remaining charge against Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the aggressive advocate of taking one's life as an option for the terminally ill, and ordered him to stand trial in the assisted suicide of a man with Lou Gehrig's disease...
...easy to neglect condom use, it is also easy to underestimate and dismiss its importance. All of us live on a campus where students do have sex; we are not trying to send mixed messages or be offensive when we distribute free condoms. We are merely trying to fulfill our role as peer counselors and educators. Suzanne Gutter '95 AIDS Education and Outreach Quentin Topping AIDS Education and Outreach Daniela Bleichmar '96 AIDS Education and Outreach Jafi A. Lipson '95 AIDS Education and Outreach Amina Runyan-Shefa '97 Contact Jeremy Faro '96 Contact Melissa Strogatz '95 Peer Contraceptive Counselors Nicole...