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...important to consider why the Calvary courses have been turned down. Courses are welcome to teach U.S. history from a particular perspective—women’s history, for example, is mentioned as a viable option—provided the course still includes the “full span of U.S. history or at least the key events in U.S. history. The Calvary course on Christianity in American history does not cover the stipulated material. Similarly, the rejected English course is taught entirely from a Christian anthology, which goes against the requirement that students read assigned works in their...
...BOOK WAS BETTER: Both a coming-of-age love story and a treatise on geisha manners and mores, the very long Arthur Golden book reveled in its very novelness. Fiction is the ideal medium for a life story. It can span generations and take lots of scenic detours, and the reader will usually stay along for the ride. A movie has to keep on truckin' down the narrative highway...
ALZHEIMER'S One of the most tragic features of this neurological disease is the way patients slip away, slowly losing memory and other brain functions over a span of years. Now there is evidence that the long goodbye of Alzheimer's may begin even earlier than doctors suspected. A Swedish analysis of nearly 50 studies of the condition found that patients who go on to develop Alzheimer's show telltale signs--lapses in memory, reasoning, problem-solving ability, verbal fluency and attention skills--years before the disease is diagnosed. Such symptoms could serve as warning signals, say experts, but doctors...
...movie and CBS's Pope John Paul II (Dec. 4, 9 p.m. E.T., and Dec. 7, 8 p.m. E.T.) cover the same birth-to-death span: his youth in Poland, his resistance first against the Nazis and then the communists, his rise to world leader. But they bring out different sides of his personality. Have No Fear's Wojtyla (Thomas Kretschmann) is starchy and principled, more a paragon than a person. CBS's mini-series presents a soft-focus, avuncular Wojtyla, dividing the role in two: the young priest (Cary Elwes) is a jocular guy who talks sex (within marriage...
...Crimson with 15 points. After hitting only two free throws before halftime, Stehle emerged as the leader after the break, hitting six of his seven shots en route to a season-high 20 points. The 6’8 forward hit two three-pointers in a three-minute span midway through the half that helped push the lead from six to 12 and give Harvard control of the game. “I think we did a really good job today in capitalizing on the size advantage we had,” Cusworth said. The Aggies started with a three...