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...MUSIC . . . TO THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED: "One rarely watches a Congressional filibuster on C-Span and thinks -->
...obvious question, "Since some, although not all, scholars believe Matthew may have been written around A.D. 80, what real difference does a marginally earlier date make?" In antiquity, some 20 to 25 years was not marginal; that was the working life-span of a whole generation. And with a date prior to A.D. 70, when the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple occurred, we gain new insights into the historical Jesus, who prophesied both events. Records from eyewitnesses remain fundamental, and they are a challenge to scholars as much as to skeptics and believers. CARSTEN PETER THIEDE Paderborn, Germany...
...totalitarian iron hand manipulating the whole nation at will; on the other side, you have an open capitalist regime, a successful free market economy and a democratic system guaranteeing people's rights and involvement in politics. Above all, shall we remember, this gap has been created in a mere span of 40 years, even less than one generation's lifetime! And yet, the dark shadow of a second Korean War, a disaster which could possibly wipe out the gap by just destroying everything, is always hanging over the peninsula like the sword of Damocles...
...Politicians, most of whom are the sort of people who take themselves too seriously, take very seriously the dangers inherent in appearing to take themselves too seriously. What made Don Imus' speech at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Dinner front-page news was the White House suggestion that C-SPAN not rebroadcast it. That was unusual enough to meet the old city-editor test for a story: man bites dog (no special breed). Politicians are supposed to be nearly insult proof, in the way that people associated with the Mob are libel proof...
Carpenter became the Big Red's first player to win the honor this season after playing solidly over a three-game span...