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...document delivered last week by Rockefeller contained nothing about any assassinations of foreign leaders. In explanation, Rockefeller said that his commission did not have enough time to look into the allegations thoroughly. Said the Vice President: "We didn't feel we could come to a conclusion on partial information...
...narrow technical and legal sense, the city has not yet gone broke by missing a payroll or defaulting on a loan. At week's end state and city officials were haggling over the creation of a new state agency that would take the city into a partial receivership. The agency would temporarily bail out New York at the same time that it would assert some control over city finances-a humiliating but well-deserved intrusion on mismanaged home rule...
Worse, the alliance's underbelly is sagging badly. Greece and Turkey have been on the verge of war over Cyprus for months and have threatened to withdraw completely from NATO. Portugal is threatened by Communist domination. Italy has made a partial economic recovery, but still faces growing Communist strength in elections this month. Southern Europe, in fact, was the conference's dominant concern...
...Gnostics believed that a spark of divine Light was imprisoned in some men's bodies, and that redemption meant union with the supreme being through possession of the mystical, Zen-Like gnosis; a Gnostic could thus achieve gnosis and partial redemption long before corporeal death. The Gnostic creed left no room for the Christian belief in redemption through Christ's atonement on the cross for the sins of mankind. In fact, Nag Hammadi texts depict a Jesus who did not die on the cross at all. In their version, Simon of Cyrene carried the cross to Golgotha...
Another quiz? Well, why not? We've come a long way since the "Know-Your-President-Warts-and-All Quiz," and if we couldn't stop the war, at least we take partial credit for there being no Class Day speaker this year. What can this mean? Harvard teaches you to limit your goals...