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...much a part of its institutional identity as the more secularly fashionable "Veritas." The degrees, even for candidates in the Divinity School, are still granted under the Great Seal of the Corporation with its Latin formulation "veritas: Christo et Ecclesiae." I think the institution is strong enough to sustain these references to its formative motto...
EARLIER THIS MONTH, Congress passed a bill to extend unemployment benefits for those who were especially hard-hit by the recession. Bush vetoed it, and won a close battle to sustain the veto. The program was too expensive, he said, and unnecessary, because the economy had hit bottom and was rebounding. But despite his denials, the recession has been getting worse. Unemployment today is 6.8%, the highest rate since May, when Bush first began to promise that the United States was in recovery...
...SOLUTIONS to this dilemma come to mind. One is, of course, to omit the whole thing. However, the idea of an opening prayer seems to me to be still valuable because it reminds us of transcendent values that the University and our education are meant to sustain...
...spite of the message, the show remains lighthearted. Jeanne Simpson's phenomenal choreography, especially in the scene parodying "Singin' in the Rain," helps to sustain the playful tone. The male and female chorus members are delightful, as they spar, tango and symbolically sharpen knives at the dinner table. Although the phallic use of umbrellas is carried slightly too far, by the end of the show the audience does view the battle of the sexes as a timeless dance...
...women behind the cameras, this burst of activity is a powerful signal. They are finally beginning to achieve something more than token status as directors, and more and more of them are starting to sustain coherent careers in Hollywood. Best of all, the range of their work belies the conventional notion that holds that women can be entrusted only with delicately nuanced little films dealing with intricate personal relationships. Most of them would agree that any director needs, as Coolidge says, "a strong male side and a strong female side." Good directors, she says, demonstrate "a nurturing ability," in order...