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Your contention that in my Christian Century article I maintained that Jesus Christ was the product of a "genetics experiment" is ludicrous. My concern was whether the idea of the origin of humankind with extraterrestrial assistance would in any way compromise what the church believes about the uniqueness of God's revelation in and through Christ. Personally I don't think that it would, since the heart of that revelation (that God is love and mercy) is at the moral core of the universe. It is of cosmic dimensions and is not limited to the earth...
...present temptation is to think only of Italy as the place where the pseudo anarchists strike with bolder and bolder feats or abductions. We have a vague notion that Italy has the monopoly on banditry−bandit being of Italian origin−and that kidnaping is as much part of the Italian scene as opéra bouffe. (The great master of English opéra bouffe, W.S. Gilbert, was kidnaped as a baby in Naples−an event both Neapolitan and Gilbertian.) And it is true that it has traditionally been hard to think of Italy as tranquil...
...homunculus encased in glittering leather with the motto VIVAN LAS CADENAS (long live chains) worked in studs on its back?this, in Steinberg's ironic eye, is the American dream street (our equivalent of the Di Chirico piazza, repository of all unspoken fantasy) brought up to date from its origin in the Wild West movie...
...document, it is best to look at it as a whole. Yet in this constitution, the most fundamental principle has been abused. I cannot support this kind of oppressive document either in terms of practicality or principle, and I think any clear-headed individual regardless of race or origin must feel the same way. I would rather see no student government at all than a government which is an embarassment to common intelligence and morality. Andy Berger...
...Males are basically a breeding experiment run by females," Irven Devore, professor of Anthropology, said last night as a part of his talk on the origin of human behavior...