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...premise is custom-made to shock: five people take their pleasure by making love in the twisted wrecks of cars. Not simple thrill seekers, these folks have turned their kink into a cult, elevated making out in the backseat to sadomasochistic levels, converted rubbernecking into a black art. They preach "the reshaping of the human body by modern technology." Their grail is James Dean's Porsche Spyder 550; their relics are photos of Jayne Mansfield's fatal collision. Kinda creepy...
First, I stubbornly believe that religion in a university setting ultimately exists in the nexus between individual and communal experience. We do pray together and we may share ideas, but I don't think we can really preach to each other or hope for uniformity. Nonetheless, community definitely does strengthen the individual. It can provide support when sacrifices and commitments become too weighty. And it can be a source of growth...
Last month Barnevik gave up the title of chief executive officer he had held since he created ABB in 1988 by fusing Sweden's Asea with Switzerland's BBC Brown Boveri. Though he will remain a strong presence at ABB, the move will give him time to preach his gospel of East-West economic cooperation to skeptical politicians, labor leaders and business executives. "This is something very close to my heart," he says. "If we can combine the low wages in the East with the high skills in the West, we can revitalize Europe." Barnevik believes the West...
Finally, I don't know where Mr. Tucker is from, but in the United States our right to "preach hate and bigotry on the town green" is explicitly guaranteed. I respect Mr. Tucker's freedom to opine on subjects that he clearly knows nothing about, but I wish that he wouldn't do it in the public medium of a newspaper--he is himself a decent argument against freedom of speech. --Joseph R. Varet...
...Karger, If you would like to consider homosexuality a sin, you are entitled to do so, but please do not preach that nobody at Harvard can disagree. --Sam Spital...