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...spontaneous mass movement. They formed as a response to the Rev. Fred Phelps, an attention-crazed fanatic based in Topeka, Kans., who has logged 15 years as a kind of paleo-fundamentalist, gay-baiting performance artist. Last spring Phelps grabbed the already troubling line, taken by preachers such as Pat Robertson, that disasters like 9/11 were God's punishment for American sins, and spun it past the boundary of the outrageous by having his followers crash military funerals with signs like GOD LOVES IEDS (improvised explosive devices) and scream to grieving parents that their children were in hell as divine...
...paper) Anne: “Some dungeon?” (more scrambling, muttering) Richard: “...uh...your bed chamber.” But Professor Blair G. Hoxby showed up these slackers by having all his lines from “Much Ado About Nothing” down pat. FM gives him extra props for creating some serious sexual tension with his female TF, who repeatedly groped him throughout their scene. Professor W. James Simpson was the one doing the violating in his scene, where he showed off his dramatic flair by adding in some improvised ass-grabbings...
...shady dealings are no secret. Pat O’Leary, an Ivy League coach for 20 years, told me that “it’s a disaster.” Similarly, Dartmouth President James Wright admitted that “it does get ugly...
...thought immediately of Mae West’s riposte that “goodness had nothing to do with it.” If Caldwell feels that Christianity is dismissed at Harvard, she might take note of who have become its most visible advocates: Fred Phelps, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Ralph Reed. None are known for promoting Christ’s messages of love, tolerance, and generosity. Care for the poor, the sick, the sinner, and the prisoner is absent from today’s Christianity. The Catholic Church in which I was baptized has spent...
...deserves close attention. The Communist Manifesto, Graham Greene’s novels, and Descartes’ Meditations are begging to be poked, prodded, turned upside down, and shaken most vigorously. But when the clock is ticking and I still have 400 pages to go, I give Marx a pat on the head and move on. The second option is selective reading. In fact, many professors expect that their students will not do all the required reading. But what to cut? Undergrads are rarely in a position to weigh the merits of unfamiliar texts. One text may provide background for another...