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...Gingrich and four by Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, that will study competing Republican proposals.TIME chief political correspondent Michael Kramersays Dole may be trying to draw support from Kemp's followers for the1996 presidential race. "Kemp is a very valuable commodity in the party," says Kramer. "Anybody that can rope him in is going to be in good shape...
...shoot him, but Jonas manages to pass the deed to the farm on to his son. Miserable, Daniel runs out to the family boat and cries himself to sleep. Obviously, the Hacketts are farmers and not sailors since the gentle bobbing of the boat unlaces the feebly-tied mooring rope, setting Daniel adrift down the river...
...point in the exhibit, onscreen images of planet Earth appear one at a time on different screens while the voice talks about Creation. The images bubble from screen to screen, syllable, when the language utters the words "physical" and "physiological." A rope creeps across nine screens while the voice drones on about the particularities of length and measurement. When Heidegger's text contradicts itself--"But space and time do not serve only as parameters"--the screens go blank. Then the images start rippling from left to right, change direction and slow down, as Heidegger winds his way through more...
Your cover photograph demeans marriage by showing a bride and groom bound to each other, an obvious parody of ``tying the knot.'' The use of rope around two nonthinking wax figurines waiting for meltdown is diabolical. If I were contemplating marriage or were newly married, gazing at your cover for too long would give me cold feet...
...granted today will dissipear. Yet despite this, post- modernists are demanding that money be re-allocated from the sciences to their departments. Diverting money from the sciences to the humanities, especially to those disciplines whose main concern is destruction of all that is rational, is equivalent to tying a rope around the future...