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That was the thing that really got me. They told us all kinds of things at those meetings during Freshman Week. I forgot...
...conspiracy, we just forgot to put the ad in." Crimson Advertising Manager Jonathan M. Weintraub '85, said last night. "We're not rich enough to leave out paid ads on purpose," he explained...
James Cummings, director of the NRC'S Office of Inspector and Auditor since 1978, was transferred out of his job as the controversy grew. Cummings claims that the agency lost confidence in him after he forgot to turn over key documents. Says he: "I simply screwed up, and I've been going all around town saying mea culpas ever since...
Fortunately, the Protestant princes ignored such savage recommendations, and the Lutheran Church quickly forgot about them. But the words were there to be gleefully picked up by the Nazis, who removed them from the fold of religious polemics and used them to buttress their 20th century racism. For a good Lutheran, of course, the Bible is the sole authority, not Luther's writings, and the thoroughly Lutheran Scandinavia vigorously opposed Hitler's racist madness. In the anniversary year, all sectors of Lutheranism have apologized for their founder's views...
...What really happened? History relies on memory, and memory on will. An 11th century Chinese emperor possessed a newly invented clock, which his people knew about, though no one owned a clock but he. When the emperor died, the imperial clock was allowed to fall apart, and everyone forgot that such a device had ever existed. Five hundred years later, Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest, arrived in Asia bearing a new Italian invention called a clock. The Chinese marveled at the thing...