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...early Christian belief by Pagels, 52, an Episcopal churchgoer, though not one who counts herself a conventional believer. In The Gnostic Gospels, about the early Christian sect whose members aimed at mystical communion of the individual with God, Pagels set out a scriptural alternative that was shunned from the outset by the institutional church. In 1988 she published Adam, Eve and the Serpent, a study of the influential way St. Augustine read the Garden of Eden story as a symbol of man's fall, though some earlier Christians had seen it as a parable of human freedom...
...looked, at least at the outset, as if the U.N. military officers meant business. The 10,000 British, French and Dutch reinforcements were coming in two new brigades. They would be equipped with artillery and armored vehicles and would move quickly by helicopter to aid and protect peacekeepers in their humanitarian mission of distributing food and supplies. Discussions were held in Paris and London about changing the system under which military commanders must in practice obtain U.N. civilian approval to use force for anything beyond shooting back when under attack. On occasion it has been particularly frustrating...
...Grady was learning that too, as he lay concealed at the outset of what would turn into a harrowing six-day game of hide-and-seek. When the Serbs' first search missed him, sometimes passing as close as 3 to 5 ft. from him, O'Grady hugged the earth and remained frozen. Staying concealed when it was light, O'Grady sought safer cover each night with agonizing slowness. In all, he ranged no more than two miles from the spot where he had landed...
...cast, a virtual ensemble of HRDC members, is capable of greater productions than this. Ill-fated by the script at its outset, The Living plunders a previous era for answers and comes up empty-handed except for a contrived ending metaphor. As Graunt puts in in his closing speech, "What Newton found [on vacation during the plague]: the world would fly to pieces, but for a great force, a power in every single body in the world, which pulls it ceaselessly toward every other body." Unfortunately, not even Newtonian physics can hold the play together...
...debate's tone was hostile from the outset. Panelist Stephen E. Frank '95, former Crimson editorial chair, opened his remarks with a personal attack on Undergraduate Council President Josh D. Liston...