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DAWKINS: I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes from. Now Dr. Collins says, "Well, God did it. And God needs no explanation because God is outside all this." Well, what an incredible evasion of the responsibility to explain. Scientists don't do that. Scientists say, "We're working on it. We're struggling to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

That is until I recognized that the bewildering political maneuverings are simply a cardboard backdrop for Letty’s quest for erotic gratification. This ugly duckling will have her tryst. She will find Love. She will learn that she is “Sensual. Seductive. Desirable...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HLS Grad Explores Old English Spies, Subterfuge, and Sex | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

...This quest is intermittently retarded by Eloise’s invasive narration. Every few chapters, we are brought back to contemporary London and treated to Eloise’s scintillating updates on her research progress, as well as her continued lusting after charming British bloke, Colin Selwick. Substitute “Firth” for “Selwick,” and you have an idea of how this plot too will develop...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HLS Grad Explores Old English Spies, Subterfuge, and Sex | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

...that I’m (almost) as cool. I’ll take that. A free tour of the parliament building and a tourist-centric ghost tour of Edinburgh were matched with champagne, golf lessons from a pro, and an introduction to the infamous pubs. And even though my quest to find my prince of the United Kingdom only got as far as beers with distracted rugby players, it still classified as a good time...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Small But Special | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

Youth ministers have been on a long and frustrating quest of their own over the past two decades or so. Believing that a message wrapped in pop-culture packaging was the way to attract teens to their flocks, pastors watered down the religious content and boosted the entertainment. But in recent years churches have begun offering their young people a style of religious instruction grounded in Bible study and teachings about the doctrines of their denomination. Their conversion has been sparked by the recognition that sugarcoated Christianity, popular in the 1980s and early '90s, has caused growing numbers of kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Touch With Jesus | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

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