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...cheapest King James is $12.50.) At the opposite end of the cultural scale. Scarf Press and David C. Cook have issued Bibles in comic-strip form. There are also vulgar paraphrases of the New Testament aimed at young "Jesus people," as well as curious "chronological Bibles," which purport to rearrange events in exact "historical" order. Reader 's Digest is at work on a condensed Bible. By 1982 it will cut the Old and New Testaments nearly in half, by trimming out repetitions and wordiness rather than by chopping chapter and verse...
...Soviets also make use of "clandestine" radio broadcasts, transmissions that purport to originate from within a particular recipient country but actually come from the Soviet Union or an East bloc ally. The "National Voice of Iran," a source of inflammatory anti-U.S. propaganda, is actually located in the Soviet Union. Furthermore, other Moscow-aligned Communist countries deliver more than 5,000 additional hours a week of pro-Soviet (and anti-American) broadcasting, more than twice the output of Radio Moscow. Radio Havana broadcasts to Africa and Europe through transmitters in the U.S.S.R. In parts of the U.S., Radio Havana...
...several Faculties at Harvard in admitting students; (2) a discussion of the goals that admissions committees might ideally seek to achieve in selecting applicants; (3) a review of the literature concerning the most common criteria for admission--prior grades and standardized test scores--to ascertain what these criteria purport to measure and how well they succeed; (4) a review of what is known about the effectiveness of other methods of evaluating applicants--personal interviews, letters of recommendation, and any other techniques in use at Harvard or elsewhere; and (5) a list of questions or topics for further research which admissions...
...coupled with with, passion, and intelligence, has always been the touchstone of the successful essayist. "Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and stamina to write essays" advised E.B. White. Didion's collected pieces in The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem frankly do not purport to be objective social history, and we would be missing the point to regard them as such. Rather, we read these meditations upon Bogota and Malibu, John Wayne and Charles Manson to learn how an acutely sensitive and articulate individual managed to harrow the age. Subjectivity is the point...
Blume said the SJC dealt with a similar complaint about a year ago and decided that "if a student was appearing and not practicing law, the court has nothing to do with it. The court doesn't purport to govern anything except the practice of law," Blume said...