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...growing smorgasbord of upstart religious movements ranges from earnest, even plausible, efforts at finding a new creed for a new era to theologies that could be described as, um, eccentric. In the latter group is, for example, the Aquarian Concepts Community Divine New Order Government. On its Website you can learn about "Interuniversal Genetics," enroll in the "Starseed Schools of Melchizedek" and perhaps arrange a "personal transmission" with "Gabriel of Sedona." Gabriel, by the way, carries the endorsement of the "head administrator of our universe" (the two of them "fuse" once a month) and, moreover, is "the only morontia counselor/soul...
...course, offered for the first time this year, came out of the Interfaculty Initiatives program as an unprecedented collaboration of a smorgasbord of departments and graduate schools...
...areas they tentatively identified on their college applications (written when they were high school seniors) than do students at other institutions, who do not declare concentrations until the end of their sophomore year. Students simply do not have enough time to sample the many offerings at Harvard's "smorgasbord" before they are forced to determine which of them will serve as their main course. They often come out with the same range of interests with which they entered. I scarcely see how anyone can consider that a success. I am not saying that this is true of all Harvard students...
...high table of presidential politics, primary campaigns are sumptuous nine-course affairs. Aspiring candidates put on long white aprons, line up behind tables full of flickering Sterno, and dish out issues and arguments to fatten the voters. This year the smorgasbord from Iowa to California groaned under all the offerings: flattening the tax structure, abolishing free-trade agreements, limiting the terms of lawmakers, reinventing welfare or health care or public housing or farm subsidies, spending more on defense, cutting this agency or that, restricting immigration. In this context voters could come to believe that those they elected would determine what...
...actually got kind of a smorgasbord of experience," said Veronica S. Jung '97, one of the group's leaders, as she straightened from harvesting squash on Friday. "I think this project has been very unique because its been kind of a mix of the urban and the rural...