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That is certainly true. Inflation is running at 85% per year, the currency is practically worthless, and many staples are almost unobtainable. Ugandans do not complain lest they receive a visit from Amin's public safety unit, a corps of goons in dark glasses who, as a Ugandan exile...
So intense is antijunta sentiment that demonstrations calling for execution of "the six" are now almost a daily occurrence. But however shrill the public clamor may become, the Caramanlis government is determined to resist anything resembling a Jacobean bloodletting. Says Press Minister Panayiotis Lambrias: "Perhaps it is a natural phenomenon...
Brown combines a progressive approach to method and analysis of the Gospels with a careful attention to conserving some essence of fact. One telling example, in his widely used Anchor Bible commentary on John, is his treatment of the account of Jesus' raising of Lazarus. The miracle is a vivid...
It should be recorded-not in the spirit of sneering at misfortune-that books about slow expiration from leukemia have become something of a literary genre. In his best novel, Blood of the Lamb, Peter DeVries wrote obliquely about his daughter's leukemia. Stewart Alsop collected nerve and wits...
The Council of Trent dealt with the matter in the 16th century, the Second Vatican Council took it up again in the 20th, and the issue has been debated in countless forums in the intervening years. But the question of whether the Jews or the Romans were ultimately responsible for...