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...Grant, who sponsored the original assembly bill, explains: "We've gone from stoning to the cross to the guillotine and now we need a more modern method. The current ritual of burning a person to death is a horrible procedure." Even proponents of the death penalty could hardly quarrel with that assertion, but historians might fault Grant's chronology. It was more than 23 centuries ago that Plato recounted how the cold began in the feet, moved up the legs and finally enveloped Socrates, who had drunk the hemlock administered to him by fiat of the democracy...
...pained I felt when I read Peter Stoler's claim that one must be a superb athlete to play left field for the Boston Red Sox, but anyone with enough determination can run a marathon. If it is simply skill that makes a superb athlete, I have no quarrel. But if physical conditioning has anything to do with it, sports physicians will confirm that the average marathoner is a more "superb" athlete than the fanciest of leftfielders...
...revitalize the church's mission in the world. For Moltmann, such doctrines as the Atonement and the Second Coming are not invitations to escape from the world but imperatives for increased involvement in it, since Christ is involved in both past and future human history. Moltmann has no quarrel with conversion-minded missionary activity. But he emphasizes a "qualitative mission" that works for human understanding. His vision is also profoundly political: he believes that the church must suffer with the oppressed and reject the materialistic values that are "the driving power behind our modern economy." Christians in rich countries...
...scenes that follow--the introduction of Puck, the quarrel of Titania and Oberon, and the bumbling of five Athenian workmen rehearsing a play in the woods--are gems of acting and direction. In fact, the acting in this production is without exception good. Dan Breslin gives an outstanding performance as the hyperenergetic, cackling Puck, flawlessly capturing the playful and devilish facets of Puck's mischief. Teresa Barger as Hermia and Joanna Blum as Helena are very much the respectively sought-after and frustrated lovers, and vice-versa. Anne B. Clarke as Titania fairly wafts across the stage. Tim Reuben...
...squabbling junta (known as the Dergue) dumped the late Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. Mengistu was believed to have asked Castro for military aid, but there were no indications of how Castro responded. Even more intriguing were rumors that Fidel was attempting to mediate the longstanding territorial quarrel that divides the Marxist regimes in Somalia and Ethiopia. Observers speculated that he might have delayed his departure from Ethiopia because he did not want to cut short his effort at shuttle diplomacy...