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...argument over how to interpret Maya writing -- along with arguments over just about every other aspect of Maya archaeology -- won't be resolved anytime soon. New discoveries are constantly reinventing the conventional wisdom. At Caracol, for example, the Chases have uncovered an unprecedented 74 relic- filled tombs; their location, in living areas, supports the idea of ancestor worship, and the number of burial chambers provides evidence, the Chases think, that the Maya had a large, prosperous "middle class...
...that, but I just couldn't stand reliving those terrible times." Says Pincus: "I believe he was abused -- beaten and burned." As for brain damage, tests administered in 1990 indicate that Shaw's right parietal lobe is damaged. That is the area of the brain that controls how we interpret the behavior of others. Shaw's frontal lobes are also atrophied...
...battle over church strategies heated up this winter with the publication of a lively book, The Churching of America 1776-1990 (Rutgers), in which sociologists Roger Finke and Rodney Stark interpret 214 years of U.S. religion as a series of marketing coups. Historian Martin E. Marty summarized their interpretation: "No God or religion or spirituality, no issue of truth or beauty or goodness, no faith or hope or love, no justice or mercy; only winning and losing in the churching game matters." Marty, a Lutheran, remarks that it is "lethal" to reshape churches around the claims of returnees...
...glad to see that Zaheer Ali, in his letter of February 24, 1993 to Dean Jeremy Knowles, comes out against grade inflation, for so I interpret his meaning. Although he favors affirmative action for Blacks in admissions, he opposes affirmative action in grading. Grades should be earned, he says, and not given by "some benevolent white teaching fellow or professor...
...ringing endorsement for living for the moment, guilt free. Currently, The Devil You Know, a danceable slammer about the conflict between living for the moment and living pragmatically, is being played in heavy rotation on college radio stations. Though the lyrics are cryptic, one could interpret Edwards' words as a message about the danger of promiscuity in the age of AIDS. But other songs, like the politically charged The Right Decision, are far more alluring. Here Edwards makes a commentary on hypocrisy, with thinly veiled references to the Gulf War and the Rodney King trial. He concludes, "There...