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...more coincidences between Christianity and Communism than there could be with capitalism." Liberation theology, he exults, is "a re-encounter of Christianity with its roots, with its most beautiful, heroic and most glorious history." He also calls it "one of the most fundamental happenings that have occurred in our epoch...
Whatever else it accomplishes, last week's intervention may mark a new epoch in global monetary relations. The currency gyrations since 1973, when the U.S. and its major trading partners abandoned fixed exchange rates and allowed money prices to float, have disrupted international finance and trade. Regular intervention would make volatile swings much less likely. Says Robert Hormats, an Assistant Secretary of State in the first Reagan Administration and now a vice president of the Goldman Sachs investment-banking firm: "What we are seeing may be the beginning of a new era--one of managed rather than freely floating rates...
Matthew S. Forsyth '87-'88, co-chairman of the Crimson Key Society's Froshweek activities, sees the mixer as a cultural heirloom to be proudly passed from epoch to epoch, year to year...
...socially conscious epoch, the fortunes of the fortunate seem irrelevant; in a time of ethnic narcissism, Wasps are out. Yet as Ralph Graves' canny, discerning work proves, the novel of manners is far from obsolete, and the population of boardrooms and island beaches is as compelling as it was in the Age of Irony (circa...
...meteorites. Furthermore, other sediment layers containing abnormally high amounts of iridium were discovered under both the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico; these layers were deposited around the time of a smaller mass extinction that occurred more than 30 million years ago, at the end of the Eocene epoch. In addition to the iridium anomaly, the sediments harbored microscopic balls of glass called microtektites, which form in rock when something hits it with great force--further evidence of a major collision. Yet investigators continued to regard the findings from the two time periods as being no more related than...