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...created doubts that this ambitious young Senator meant what he said. He talks of coming through his ordeal "unscathed but not ungrateful" and of how his wife took charge when that "stab of fear" hit him in the ambulance. There are no tears until he starts talking about his oldest son's inauspicious first year at college, seeing his father the presidential candidate on television regularly for the first four months, not always favorably, then commuting between the University of Pennsylvania and his father's bedside for the next four months. "He's become a man. He's no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biden Is Also Reborn | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Who Was Jesus? | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...performance is matched by that of Jodhi May, who plays the oldest child, Molly. May's Molly is a pouty, stubborn child who feels her mother's attachment to the anti-apartheid movement deprives her of her mother's attention. May cries and stomps and yells at police in a way that suggests a true mother-daughter likeness between her and Hershey...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Growing Up in South Africa | 7/29/1988 | See Source »

Rossiaud shows that prostitution was perceived as a necessary evil, which protected the society from potentially greater evils. With the use of countless Church documents and codices, Rossiaud shows that the Church gave support to the world's oldest profession, believing the women of the night to be responsbile for guarding the honor and chastity of the nuns, who prayed for the people...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: The Politics of Medieval Prostitution | 7/29/1988 | See Source »

DUKAKIS has managed to wrestle away from the Republicans one of their oldest and proudest themes: fiscal responsibility...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: Bush and the Vision Thing | 7/26/1988 | See Source »

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