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...about the solar system. Rather, the Pope wanted to restore and honor Galileo's standing as a good Christian. In the 17th century, said the Pope, theologians failed to distinguish between belief in the Bible and interpretation of it. Galileo contended that the Scriptures cannot err but are often misunderstood. This insight, said John Paul, made the scientist a wiser theologian than his Vatican accusers. More than a millennium before Galileo, St. Augustine had taught that if the Bible seems to conflict with "clear and certain reasoning," the Scriptures obviously need reinterpretation...
...conflict between gays and the military is a tinderbox, not least because each side sees itself as an embattled minority culture much misunderstood and views the other as a privileged beneficiary of special treatment. Further bedeviling the issue is that each side is partly right. The military case against openly permitting homosexuals is, in essence, that they will cause discomfort to the heterosexual majority already in place, especially if gay soldiers become more open in asserting their sexual preferences. The progay case, as articulated by Clinton, is that they can make a contribution and the country can use the help...
Unlike his late father Robert, a patrician Little Rock lawyer with a lanky frame, Lindsey is short (he looks like a miniature version of British Prime Minister John Major) and so unassuming that even journalists in Little Rock misunderstood his role. "I thought for a long time that he was just Clinton's gofer, but it's obvious he's much more than that," says John Brummett, political editor at the Arkansas Times. In fact, Lindsey is the outside, practical manifestation of Clinton's political anima, a campaign unto himself: he took the competing opinions of the staff to Clinton...
...received. A year has passed since the University removed Blue Cross/Blue Shield, a traditional indemnity or "freedom of choice" plan, from the faculty and staff health care menu and replaced it with HealthFlex Blue, a Blue Cross-affiliated "point-of-service" plan, and the change is still widely misunderstood. (A point-of-service plan is a hybrid between an indemnity plan and an HMO--see "Definitions" below...
...some Eliot residents still aren't happy,saying the Dining Services have misunderstood theproblem...