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...latest episode in the age-old struggle to reconcile science and religion. The year's most intriguing book about God was produced not by theologians but by 60 world-class scientists, 24 Nobel prizewinners among them. Cosmos, Bios, Theos gives their thoughts on the Deity and the origin of the universe and of life on earth. For instance, the co- editor, Yale physicist Henry Margenau, concludes that there is "only one convincing answer" for the intricate laws that exist in nature: creation by an omnipotent, omniscient God. While many scientists are skeptics or are still seeking their own theologies, others...
Furthest on the fringe is Pamyat, a rabidly nationalist, anti-Semitic group espousing a return to the czarist monarchy and unabashedly proud of its fascist symbolism. Its members blame most of the country's ills on "people of alien ethnic origin," and refuse to ally themselves with any communists. Declares Pamyat president Dmitri Vasiliev: "No democratic, no communist system or any other ism will be able to stop this irresistible drive toward purification and freedom...
...central themes -- the conflicting claims of loyalty, ambition and love, the psychic links between the artist-outsider and the outlaw, the irrational constraints imposed on performers by aesthetic dunces in high places -- had immediate relevance for Carne and his colleagues. Now a wonderfully imaginative troupe of French origin, settled for more than a decade in Minneapolis, has found the melodrama surrounding the making of the movie just as rich a wellspring...
...says that in his experience mostAsian-Americans at Harvard are first orsecond-generation immigrants with close ties tothe nation of their family's origin...
Last year, after complaints by one South Asian student, the category was changed to "Asian American," accompanied by a request for "country of family's origin...