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...short stories he writes about Shakespeare. They form the opening and closing chapters of Dark Lady. The first, Will and Testament, is a bawdy historical pastiche in which Shakespeare, with Ben Jonson's connivance, manages to insert his name in the King James translation of the 46th Psalm ("Though the mountains shake . . . He cutteth the spear . . ."). The other, The Muse, tells of a scholar from an alternative universe who time-travels to Elizabethan England to verify Shakespeare's authorship of the plays. The scholar meets a bad end, but his copies of the plays fall into the hands...
...itinerary last week. At an Omaha rally for Governor Charles Thone, who is in a tight race with Democrat Bob Kerrey, the President preached his faith in economic recovery with a religious fervor. "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning," he said, borrowing from Psalm 30. "America has endured a long terrible night of economic hardship, but we are seeing the first welcome bursts of sunshine...
...Bruce M. Metzger of Princeton Theological Seminary, a distinguished Bible expert, to supervise the work of nine staff condensers. Despite the inevitable jokes to come about the Six Commandments or the 4.2 Days of Creation, the team wisely left unshrunk the best-known passages, like the 23rd Psalm. Instead they applied the scissors to parallel accounts, such as the dozens of stories concerning Jesus Christ that appear in more than one of the four Gospels. Whole narrative passages are squeezed to a minimum. God's words to Moses out of the burning bush are boiled down by two-fifths...
...Rome, the brothers updated rituals while keeping faithful to the spirit of Benedictine monasticism. When several monks failed to appear for matins at 4 a.m., for example, the brothers examined the need to make the prayer more their own. What had been an hour and a half of psalm singing and Scripture reading is now a third as long and much more contemporary. Among the readings are excerpts from modern theologians like Edward Schillebeeckx and Henri Nouwen and from Third World proponents of "liberation theology," who consider social and economic activism central to the church's mission...
...Since he was the only one with a hat, Roy Jackson, 64, a retired janitor, did the drawing. His random choice: himself. He smiled warily. Evelyn Washington, 27, suggested that they pray. "Lord, please guide us," she began. And then out of her Bible she read from the 24th Psalm: "Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy place? He that has clean hands and a pure heart...