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Caving willingly to pressure, Wesleyan College’s imprimatur has been accorded to a group that wants to educate professors and incoming freshmen on the use of the transgendered pronoun “ze” and its possessive...
...Leon had every reason to fake his work's pedigree: the Zohar was far too radical to be accepted without a fabricated imprimatur. An utterly original 1,800-page mix of Torah commentary, parody, erotic poetry, numerology and experimental narrative devices, it crams some 400 subplots into a Chaucer-like tale of a band of traveling sages. The book's form alone, says Matt, is "a challenge to the normal workings of consciousness...
...primary objective anyway. The trio of negative votes, shrugged one member of the U.S. delegation, "was for the people back home." The same issues kept the U.S. from signing the final document at the Copenhagen meeting. But in Nairobi, the U.S. seemed determined, if possible, to lend its imprimatur to the conference's concluding report. Said Delegate Reagan before the final vote: "My No. 1 concern is to have a document adopted by consensus that will give a legacy for ten or 15 years...
...abortion is tucked somewhere in the Constitution-and also to the more extreme religious conservatives, who believe abortion is murder. That leaves the rest of us. And I imagine most of us would prefer some good, messy legislative compromises, hammered out at the state level, with the unimpeachable imprimatur of public approval. Perhaps it is time, finally, for Democrats to embrace democracy...
...Performance of the Week For two years Miramax let it languish. But with Quentin Tarantino's imprimatur, Zhang Yimou's Hero finally hit U.S. theaters on Aug. 27?and what a hit it was. In its first weekend the multi-hued martial-arts thriller, which stars Jet Li as an imperial assassin, earned $18 million?a record opening for an Asian movie and the second best for a foreign language film after The Passion of the Christ...