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Neusner asserted that any thoughtful Jew must conclude that Jesus was actually "abandoning the Torah" and reject him. He also suggested that insofar as Matthew's arguments are based in Jewish law, Christianity may be flawed by its own standards...
...disagree with his point of view demonstrates a naiveté in intellectual argument. There are many legitimate reasons to disagree with the policies of the Israeli government, despite claims of it being an ally of “democracy.” The state of Israel is democratic insofar its Jewish citizenry...
Well, that’s not true. But Harvard students are masters of obscurantism—insofar as we can bring “Basho” to Kansas, or “Dinosaurs” to Manhattan, or for that matter “Suleyman” to Montana...
...torture portrayed in more graphic terms than usual for a Bond flick. These convulsions eventually break through the pair’s thick armor and allow them to see what’s at each other’s core: a mirror image. The two are the same insofar as Darcy and Elizabeth from Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” are both stubborn and conceited. Bond and Vesper cling to their self-defense mechanisms, leery of betraying deficiencies they both have in spades...
...also happened that MASH was the biggest commercial success of Atlman's long career. He cared about box office only insofar as it could attract financing for other films. After a hit like MASH or, to a lesser extent, Nashville, he would quickly line up five more films that didn't cost much and didn't have to make much. The flurry of films that followed MASH were no blockbusters, but they helped shaped a generation's idea of its own potential, and of the cinema's. Altman subverted genres like the western (McCabe & Mrs. Miller) and the private...