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Hartman's ally is Judaism's oral tradition, the Talmud, which itself mediates, or "corrects," biblical literalism. But then the question becomes, Who says what the tradition is? The answer is, Anyone who can make his interpretations stick. Too often authority is gained through raw political power, or compelled by blind allegiance to a religious sect. But sometimes, as in Hartman's case, interpretive validity is achieved through the simple force of intellect...
About a week later, I had a French oral exam with a young woman professor. After I had translated some English sentences into the preterite, she told me I had done well, and then that I looked too thin...
Second, Light said, students in the long run most appreciate courses that have frequent "checkpoints," such as quizzes, problem sets and reports. Professors who give immediate feedback on both written and oral work are best appreciated by their students, he said...
...seen since August 1987, Hilary was bundled off with her maternal grandparents after Morgan lost her legal battle to prevent oral surgeon Eric Foretich from having unsupervised visits with the child. Morgan, who divorced Foretich shortly before Hilary was born, accused her former spouse of sexually abusing their daughter, then two, in 1985. Although several child-abuse experts testified that Hilary had been molested, other experts disagreed. Judge Herbert Dixon ruled that Morgan had not proved her case and ordered her to jail for refusing to divulge Hilary's location. Not until last September, when George Bush signed...
...Oral Roberts is chastised as the TV pioneer whose promises of blessings, blended with fund raising, laid the groundwork for the authors' major target, the so-called word of faith movement (a.k.a. the "prosperity gospel"). This is a get-rich-quick brand of Christianity that holds that God is bound to give believers whatever they "claim" through faith...