Word: questioned
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Deacon attributed the increase to the recent policy change. He said Harvard's change in particular was important "because people feel the need to apply early since [Harvard] takes so many students early. There's no question there has been an influence...
...elections were over. For a year now, everyone has known that Gov. Mel Carnahan, a moderate Democrat, will be challenging the incumbent Sen. John Ashcroft (R-Mo.), a conservative Republican and a favorite of the Christian Coalition. With such a stark contrast between the candidates' positions, there's no question that some otherwise forgettable decisions might take on great political significance and that impartial government might fall by the wayside. Unfortunately, with such a long race, the casualties--including some very talented people--are already mounting...
...imagine that biographies are by and large truthful. They are not. As anyone who has ever attempted to write a "true" account of an actual event knows, the very act of putting pen to paper creates a veil of artifice that is drawn over the subject in question. If anything, Morris' technique strikes me as honest. He views his subject through the veil of fiction. It is truth that has no place in a biography. History is a consensual lie. ALEXANDER M. STERN Rochester...
...takes dramatic license, it is true to the Gospels. The dialogue is refreshingly unstilted, and the spare, understated performances of newcomer Melinda Kinnaman as the young Mary, Pernilla August (The Phantom Menace) as the mature Mary, and Christian Bale (Velvet Goldmine) as Jesus are credible and moving. One cranky question: Why do American filmmakers always insist that biblical figures spoke with British accents...
...Court in its ruling included something of a religious critique of the idea of halftime prayer when it noted that a football game was "hardly the sober type of... event that can be appropriately solemnized with prayer." But the Supreme Court is unlikely to try and adjudicate on the question of when devotional references are appropriate and when they're inappropriate. After all, how long would it be before the Justices were forced to consider the constitutionality of calling it the Hail Mary pass...