Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years after its release, Francois Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" still has the force of a bomb of light going off in the audience's head. When Truffaut's film premiered in the United States in 1962, it was banned by the Catholic Legion of Decency, making it a sin for any Catholic to go see it. However, moral considerations are no longer what make "Jules and Jim" so powerful. Instead, Truffaut's unquestionable artistry, the nakedness of the emotions his camera captured, the outstanding performances by the three leads, and the air of melancholy wisdom about life combine...
...Hebron settlers feel they are being unfairly condemned for the sin of Baruch Goldstein, who came from neighboring Kiryat Arba. "What, we've all turned into bloodthirsty murderers?" says Horowitz. "We don't eat people." But they do incense them no end. Says the Rabin aide: "At least in other settlements, Jews can move around without rubbing it in the face of the Arabs. Not the Hebronites." When they chose their home, the Hebron Jews meant to trumpet their presence in the West Bank. Now the government must contemplate ejecting them to send as vocal a message...
Michelle Marcella, a spokesperson forMassachusetts General Hospital, said yesterdaythat the study is being reviewed by the hospital'sin-house committee involving radiation performedduring the Cold...
...blood thirsty, ruthless Harvard student should be dismissed as a caricature, for both pre-meds and normal students. yet the University itself seems to have very little faith in our sense of academic ethics. At the beginning of Freshman year, we are all lectured about plagiarism, the Eighth Deadly Sin. And during finals, Harvard dispatches and armada of clerical workers to "proctor" every examination...
...majority of men and women on this campus maintain body weights that in no way pose any real threat to their health. However, Cucci describes the horrors of fat and weight gain in a manner more suitable for a Puritan diatribe against sin than a rational plan for greater fitness. He presents overeating as a "temptation" that the strong can resist but through which the weak snack their way to their eventual "self-destruction." Those who eat therefore lack discipline and control and need to be saved from their own cravings...