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...rusted entryway. Swaggart can still draw the faithful: a couple of weeks ago, 1,200 people attended a three-hour Sunday service, at which he sang, preached and pleaded for money. But Swaggart attorney and co- defendant William Treeby concedes, "We're suffering." Jeffrey Hadden, a University of Virginia scholar of televangelists, says Swaggart has stayed relatively debt-free. "Otherwise," Hadden explains, "he wouldn't have made it. But he doesn't have $5 million in change lying around...
...suicide. Novelist Alix Kates Shulman quotes La Pasionaria on this point: "It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees." But as Brooklyn Law School professor Elizabeth Schneider points out, the message here is that "self-assertion and awakening lead to death." Or, as film scholar Annette Insdorf puts it, "When death is your only choice, how free...
...good point. In its messy, likable way, Thelma & Louise is getting at even larger, more mysterious issues. Carol Clover, a film scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, says the movie is trying to study, among other topics, "the distance between men and women, the desire for each sex to separate itself." It also attempts to look at the opposite side of that coin: the increasingly dangerous ways in which the sexes come together. Novelist James Carroll wrote last week in the New Republic that "when men and women reduce each other to sexual objects, they take the first step...
Despite Silber's defeat, Gallagher says he hopes that the Kant scholar runs against Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 when the senior senator from Massachusetts is up for reelection...
...that which befalleth the Rhodes Scholar befalleth the peon; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; for all is vanity...