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...breadth, sophistication and diversity of all this biblical investigation are impressive, but it begs a question: Has it made the Bible more credible or less? Literalists who feel the ground move when a verse is challenged would have to say that credibility has suffered. Doubt has been sown, faith is in jeopardy. But believers who expect something else from the Bible may well conclude that its credibility has been enhanced. After more than two centuries of facing the heaviest scientific guns that could be brought to bear, the Bible has survived ?and is perhaps the better for the siege...
Harvard thus finished unscathed a stretch of competition sown with the likes of tenth nationally ranked UConn, which it tied, 1-1, previously nationally ranked Cornell, which it beat, 1-0, and Williams, previously sixth ranked in New England, which it beat...
...years, in journalism, lectures, and radio and TV appearances, Muggeridge has been decrying everything that he finds fraudulent or ridiculous-i.e., virtually everything. Ours is a vulgar and destructive age, he has instructed us. Our arts and literature are a heap of rubble. Our inner Lives are sown with salt. Even now that Muggeridge has converted to an idiosyncratic Christianity (as described in his 1969 Jesus Rediscovered), his cup of wormwood runneth over...
Radcliffe's seeds were sown from an actively expressed desire for the improvement of education for women. While Radcliffe remained geographically distinct from Harvard, she did not have to articulate consistently her concern for women's education. Nestled in the Radcliffe Yard and at the Quad, Radcliffe College's existence spoke for itself. As the demands for merger increased, the issues specifically pertaining to women became obscured. In the last few years, we have begun again, irrespective of our individual opinions about merger, to speak about the particular educational needs of women, not because we are fragile delicate souls...
...your mistakes, you'll only get back what you give"), and something else. Head down in his wool scarf, puffing steam in the cold, he recalled what he saw in the first months in Nixon's White House, when the seeds of today's disaster were sown. "All those people were running around with their vulnerable egos, more interested in their power than in governing," he said. "So much was done to vindicate themselves. The purpose of politics is not to justify your own existence, but to do something for the country...