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...antiquated edicts. Doctrinal disagreements in the past have caused groups to split from the Catholic Church and go their own way. When will a new generation of Catholics refuse to tolerate the frustration they feel about church dogma that they do not follow anyway? Can they find a new Martin Luther to break with the power-hungry old men in Rome? In a new church in synch with current values, vacant pulpits could be filled by married men and by women. The "cafeteria Catholics," who choose among the church teachings they wish to follow and whom the Pope disdains, would...
...death-love in the cult of showbiz. Today's prestige items: Gus Van Sant's Last Days, an imagining of the death of Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, and Where the Truth Lies, Atom Egoyan's film of a murder case involving a comedy duo not unlike Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Because Van Sant, from the U.S., and Egoyan, the Canadian, are revered for their elaborate, eccentric visions, we figured we would not get simple tabloid tattle. We came expecting an upscale approach that would anatomize the tawdry headlines and view the sordid spectacle from a remote, ironic height...
...recently as a few months ago, Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 was the hands-down favorite to become the nation’s next Federal Reserve chairman when Alan Greenspan retires next year. But in recent months, pundits and online gamblers alike have started putting their money on different candidates as details of a scandal at the American International Group, Inc. (AIG) unfold...
Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 may have left the federal government more than two decades ago, but keeping one foot in the door, he continues to exert powerful influence on national economic policy...
Feldstein’s experience in academia and his relationship with current administration officials have led many to speculate that when the seat of the Fed chair is vacant next January, President Bush will turn to Martin Feldstein to head the nation’s central bank...