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...unite successfully knowledge and religion does not imply that the two are utterly irreconcilable. In fact, because the intellectual Hester stands by her daughter when Brill beseeches her to abandon hope, she illustrates the hope of fusing both strands. Based on solely Brill's behavior, it is possible to interpret Ozick's ultimate stance as anti-intellectual. Yet closer inspection reveals The Cannibal Galaxy as a plea for knowledge tempered by Christian love, to pursue knowledge and ambition without ever losing sight of one's family, one's past, and one's beliefs...
...distance from me of no less than 50 centimeters. Thus through TIME, I wish to advise all of the women of the world, including North Americans, to please stay a distance of no less than one kilometer away from this wicked Evtushenko, because immediately some reporters could interpret this as "amor-r-r," with three Rs. Be careful of Russian poets...
Growing concern, however, has not made the economy much easier to interpret. Indeed, one of the characteristics of economic news is that its great turning points are shrouded in ambiguity and retrospective debate. With the rarest exceptions, the beginnings and ends of inflations, depressions and booms do not announce themselves with any event so unmistakable as the exchange of gunfire that opens a war. Thus, more than in most areas of the news, the stories reprinted here must stand as surrogates for many, many others...
...showing that various ex-offenders receiving federal aid often return to crime anyway. "The real relationship between crime and unemployment (or poverty) is probably complex, not simple...we might discover that as unemployment rates go up, crime rates go up," Wilson concludes. "One's natural instinct would be to interpret this as meaning that rising unemployment causes rising crime. But rising crime might as easily cause rising unemployment...
...have a clear mandate. Ambassadors of the four countries delivered separate letters to Lebanese Foreign Minister Elie Salem, acceding to his government's request to send troops. Though the letters spoke of assisting the government in restoring its authority in the Beirut area, the four contingents interpret their instructions differently. The U.S. Marines, for example, have been the only ones to train Lebanese soldiers regularly in such skills as hand-to-hand fighting and helicopter assaults. Says a British officer: "We have defined our operations according to what each of us does best." The present division of labor...