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...that Galileo was right about the solar system. Rather, the Pope wanted to restore and honor Galileo's standing as a good Christian. In the 17th century, said the Pope, theologians failed to distinguish between belief in the Bible and interpretation of it. Galileo contended that the Scriptures cannot err but are often misunderstood. This insight, said John Paul, made the scientist a wiser theologian than his Vatican accusers. More than a millennium before Galileo, St. Augustine had taught that if the Bible seems to conflict with "clear and certain reasoning," the Scriptures obviously need reinterpretation...
...attributed Saturday's third-period collapse of RPI to exhaustion. The Crimson, he suggested, simply hadn't played enough, err, any back-to-back games this season...
Harvard's biggest strength, no doubt, is whereit has always been: its forwards. This year's teamfeatures a bevy of speedy, skilled wings andcenters, with talented members on each of the fourlines. Even the fourth, err, green line featuressome potent scores: junior Chris Baird, a highlytouted recruit his freshman year who looksprepared to make his big break through; andfreshman Jason Karmonos, who tallied twice againstDalhousie in an exhibition game...
...left using theexcuse of harassment to try to get at content. Forexample, one of our professors at Harvard arguesthat the Revue, which was just a document, a pieceof paper, constituted sexual harassment. Thattells me a lot about how sexual harassment codescan be used. So I want to err on the side of morespeech and not less speech...
...CONTROVERSY HAD RAGED SO long and so intensely before the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discov . . . err, voyage to the New World that the actual day passed almost unnoticed last week. Not so in Latin America, where Native Americans constitute a majority of the population in a few countries and a large minority in others, and where cultural tensions between ( Indians, mixed-bloods and descendants of the conquistadores have long been severe. Two groups of native peoples from nearly opposite ends of the hemisphere -- Alaska and Peru -- met at the Teotihuacan pyramids outside Mexico City at the end of a month...