Word: luke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, the hockey player. Dino Ciccarelli, an especially unruly forward with the Minnesota North Stars, was jailed for a day in Toronto for clubbing the Maple Leafs' Luke Richardson twice before punching him in the mouth. Known for stark behavior (already on probation for indecent exposure), Ciccarelli was judged to have exceeded the National Hockey League's acceptable level of savagery, not an easy thing to do. Though hockey players have come before judges before, Dino is thought to be the first one directed to a real penalty box after an on-ice assault...
...view of numerous academicians, the anonymous authors of the four Gospels (later conventionally labeled Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) were working from second- and thirdhand materials, passed along by word of mouth for some decades before being written down. Consequently, the Gospels cannot be taken as gospel; that is, they cannot in every instance be considered as describing actual events. "The New Testament is the testimony of believing people," says the liberal Catholic Theologian Edward Schillebeeckx of the Netherlands. "What they are saying is not history but expressions of their belief in Jesus as Christ...
...fact, the translating process has led the Jerusalem team to the unusual conclusion that the Gospel of Luke is the oldest and closest to Jesus' original words, whereas most conventional scholarship gives that distinction to Mark. Unlike most experts, they also believe that Jesus' sayings and actions were first recorded -- in a now lost Hebrew document -- within a few years of his death on the Cross, not put down by his followers decades later...
...Jesse Luke wasn't at the convention: he was working at Emory University, cleaning up after the folks from CBS who had rented out the dorms. He said he'd continue to back Jackson because he cares about the needy. "He's not just for the poor Blacks, but for poor whites," he said...
...which the Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III declared that Spenser for Hire was quality television, a year in which the Advocate published a parody of the New Yorker and nobody got the joke, a year in which the city of Cambridge silenced Harvard Square street folk singer Luke because a city councillor thought he attracted skinheads. Still, there is enough creativity and activity on campus to insure more innovation--to make us think, or at least keep us awake...