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"The intellectual and theological origins of the College are well documented," observes Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Morals, "it was for the purpose of providing for a succession of learned ministers that the College was founded." The triumph of secularism, though important in a country where there is...
ONLY A YEAR AGO, GENERAL MOTORS WASN'T THE only industrial crisis brewing in Detroit. Chrysler, the smallest of the Big Three, seemed to have everything going wrong. Finances? The company was losing $795 million for the year. Products? Chrysler's midsize cars were based on a 10-year-old...
Conservationists have long bemoaned the absence of the wolf in the otherwise complete Yellowstone ecosystem. Extending from northwestern Wyoming into southern Montana and Idaho, it is the largest expanse of virtually unspoiled wilderness in the Lower 48 states. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 requires the U.S. government to take...
A conservative intellectual who quoted the Stoic philosopher Epictetus to the press last week ("A life not put to the test is not worth living"), Stockdale has spent most of his post-Vietnam career in a succession of academic and think-tank jobs. He has taught at the Naval War...
Across the East bloc, diehards are rebelling against the rigors of converting state-run economies to free markets. In Czechoslovakia that backlash is helping to break the country in half. In Poland economic backsliding has aggravated, and been aggravated by, a democracy run riot. Parliament is splintered into 29 political...