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Article of Faith. The Bethlehem-Youngstown merger decision was the latest example of how Barnes has applied the antitrust lawyers "a nonpartisan article of faith." While many a Democratic skeptic expected the Republican Administration to be an easy taskmaster to businessmen, Barnes has proved to be quite the opposite. He inherited 136 antitrust cases from the previous Administration, so far has disposed of 76 (only ten by dismissal). Barnes's favorite technique is to reach consent decrees with antitrust offenders (38 to date), thus avoiding long and costly court fights...
...contrast, the sunniest tale in the book is by that late great skeptic, André Gide, who tells his version of how Theseus bested the Minotaur. The thesis of Gide's Theseus is that the cave of the Minotaur is seductive as well as labyrinthine, a lotus land of indolence and confusion which exists in every man's mind more surely than it ever did in ancient Crete, and that each man must sally forth from it after slaying his personal monsters of fear and convention. In his serene, neoclassic way. Gide puts a French accent...
...used and the called phrase Communism ""Christian "undoubtedly the most serious menace which has threatened the Christian Faith in the civilized world for some hundreds of years." The theme has since been used by such bril liant foes of Communism as Roman Catholic Jacques Maritain, Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr and Skeptic Bertrand Russell. All these see what Driberg and Muggeridge glibly overlook - that battles against heresy may be more critical than battles against completely alien faiths...
...photographer's flashbulb exploded, a man blind for 27 years cried: "I see a light! Thank you, Nossa Senhora de Fatima!" Churchmen did not claim any miracles for the Lady, but others did, fervently. One man who said that the statue could work miracles was challenged by a skeptic. In the argument that followed, the two men drew their knives. The believer was stabbed to death...
...Street Skeptic...