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...Others downplay the effects of cross-listing and large classes. When professor Robert Kiely’s English 13: “The English Bible” was offered as a cross-listed class in the Core, the course’s size nearly doubled, jumping to 208 students from just 125 last year. “It’s not too big of a problem. We’re in Harvard Hall 104, so I can still see faces,” Kiely says. “It may be true that [non-concentrators] bring less background with...
...updated the Bible for China violates core Christian tenets. The appeal seems to be the group's claim to have improved the Christian faith by putting the end of the world into a Chinese context and offering believers a path to immediate salvation. Official Christian churches, by contrast, downplay the Final Judgment, emphasizing instead codes of behavior. That, plus the sect's insistence that China is "disintegrating from within," appeals to peasants, many of whom are poorly grounded in Christian principles and are angry at a government that has failed to raise their incomes or curb corruption...
...Saudi public and minimize cultural clashes ... Their bases are located away from cities and towns, and when they must venture into settlements, they are under orders to wear civilian clothing and to go unarmed when possible. Violations ... have evoked complaints from the Saudis, though both sides are eager to downplay such frictions...
...Meanwhile, Bloomberg?s spin doctors kept busy Monday trying to downplay a years-old sexual harassment case against the billionaire businessman. (The suit was settled out of court for an undisclosed...
...Saudi public and minimize cultural clashes...Their bases are located away from cities and towns, and when they must venture into settlements, they are under orders to wear civilian clothing and to go unarmed when possible. Violations...have evoked complaints from the Saudis, though both sides are eager to downplay such frictions...