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...Oxford dissenters' concerns were "theologically serious, intelligible and by no means based on narrow party allegiance or on prejudice." But he stressed that he was assured John was a gifted candidate who would work loyally within the framework of doctrine. So what worries the protestors so much? Lay minister Philip Giddings, a senior lecturer in politics at Reading University, says the Bible is plainly against homosexual practice and should not be reinterpreted to pander to changing social mores. "The problem is we live in a pick-and-choose culture," he says. Adds Rev. Charlie Cleverly, rector of Oxford...
White and his colleagues think these hominids are distinctive enough to merit their own subspecies, which the team has dubbed Homo sapiens idaltu. (Idaltu means elder in the Afar language.) But whether or not the nomenclature holds up, says paleoanthropologist G. Philip Rightmire of the State University of New York at Binghamton, "the key point is that they are from the right place at the right time to be, broadly speaking, the ancestor of modern people. It's as near as we're going...
...were lucky. Photographer Philip Blenkinsop and I emerged from the jungle earlier this year scratched and shaken, but we carried with us a unique story about a little-known people, the Hmong, desperately fighting for survival.That story, which appeared in TIME last month, showed the devastating effect of the military campaign launched by the communist leaders of Laos to eradicate the Hmong. The tribe's inexcusable crime? Siding with the U.S. in the 1960s during the Vietnam...
...time he used black magic to kill somebody. In a minor literary scoop, Bowker reports that the teenaged Eric Blair made a wax effigy of a hated fellow student at Eton, contemplated sticking pins in it but settled for tearing off a leg. The victim, an older boy named Philip Yorke, promptly suffered a broken leg and was dead of leukemia within months. Orwell's remorse, Bowker suggests, reinforced his sense of guilt over a great-grandfather's Jamaican slaveholdings and his father's career in the service of opium and imperialism. Perhaps to expiate all that shame, he bypassed...
...Philip K. Howard, a lawyer, is the founder of Common Good, a legal-reform coalition www.cgood.org) His books include The Collapse of the Common Good and The Death of Common Sense