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...STATEMENT BY ONE EXPERT THAT the frequent occurrence of miracles in the U.S. today is comparable to Europe during the Middle Ages sent chills up my spine [Cover, April 10]. In those days people not only believed in miracles but also favored burning heretics and witches at the stake. Ignorance and untold misery were the legacy of the Middle Ages. If fundamentalists want to go back to that time, then let them go alone. History teaches that discarding reason and critical thinking in favor of religious superstition leads to death and misery...
...only dignified response for Hillary Clinton or any woman similarly maligned is to stand up, straighten her spine and unflinchingly embrace the epithet. In the matter of insult taming, we have some exemplary role models. Gay militants now proudly call themselves "queer." Black rappers appropriated "bad"and even "nigger." If you want to de-fang an insult, you happily claim it as your...
...nearly as spine-chilling as the mythical picture of Jack the Ripper lurking around the corner. Our venerable University's alleged slasher was a quiet middle-aged man, living at home in Arlington with his aging mother, secluded from his neighbors, seemingly without friends. His victims weren't wide-eyed lasses or unsuspecting orphans. They were books...
...dear readers, just any books. These were rare books, focusing mostly on church history, literature and organic chemistry. And for eighteen months, between 1990 and 1992, Stephen L. Womack allegedly used a knife and his hands to rip out pages from each book's spine...
...They come alive and, expressing their stony contempt, trash wreaths, trees and blinking lights, finally getting hopelessly tangled in the awful mess. They would be tangled to this day if a fat gent in a red suit had not parked his reindeer nearby. Clinging to the book's spine is a stuffed baby gargoyle...