Word: questioner
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Others took the mike to speak out against Greenspan as well. Helen Newman '99 said students should more actively question and criticize Greenspan "manipulation" of the economy...
...curriculum. "I know of no evidence that marriage courses lead to better marriages," says Brookings Institution senior fellow Diane Ravitch. "But I do know of a great deal of evidence that schools are doing a poor job teaching math, science, history, literature and foreign languages." Then there's the question of whether kids who watch Dawson's Creek and get free condoms at school are thinking in the long term. Says University of Washington marriage expert John Gottman: "They should be learning about dating and how to even talk to the opposite sex." Some psychologists have another worry: that marriage...
...rooting interest in Hannibal is sorely conflicted. Sure, Lecter did some hideous things, but do we really want to see him tortured to death by that creep Verger? For long, long stretches in the middle of the novel, Harris himself seems to be of two minds on that very question. Employing his virtuosity as an orchestrator of suspense, the author puts Lecter, his facial appearance altered by collagen injections, in Florence, Italy, speaking impeccable Italian and lecturing to scholars on the works of Dante. Verger's network of spies has spotted Lecter there and set a trap that he cannot...
Those teenagers who died at Columbine High School were not martyrs--at least not by the usual definition of having to choose between denying their faith and living or affirming their faith and dying. The question "Do you believe in God?" was apparently not asked by the killers in most of the deaths; this seems to indicate that they were merely taunting their victims. The final testimony of the students to their faith is compelling, but it is not martyrdom, and we distort the true meaning of the word by misusing it. KENNETH G. OLTHOFF Linthicum...
...Yeltsin?s gift will provide yet more material to peruse and assess, and will thus help maintain the Kennedy assassination industry as a going concern. But an intriguing question is whether Yeltsin?s gift also represents a hidden Russian domestic agenda. "Yeltsin may have done this to score points against one or another of his enemies from the former Soviet Union," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. The Russian press has reported in the past that Russian intelligence opposed the release of the JFK files, for fear the documents might reveal too much about itself. For the moment...