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Between those two milestones, 19 years apart, the U.S. had a President who never bought the theory of mutual deterrence or its perverse-sounding corollary, mutual vulnerability. Ronald Reagan dreamed of pure, total defense. His Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, was a testament of faith that Yankee ingenuity could produce exotic missile-killing satellites that would render offensive weapons "impotent and obsolete...
...first Terminator, a model of clean craft and violent wit, was a retelling of the New Testament's Annunciation story: the Archangel Gabriel (a rebel from the 21st century) visits the Virgin Mary (a Los Angeles waitress named Sarah Connor) to tell her she is to be the mother of a political messiah -- and that if she wants to give birth to this redeemer, she must stay out of the terminator's steely grasp. In T2, 10 years later, the T-man is back, but on the side of the angels. His mission is to protect Sarah (Linda Hamilton...
...revolutionary Methodist proposal is likely to rely on the thinking of Victor Paul Furnish of Southern Methodist University and other liberal Bible scholars. According to their various reinterpretations, the Old Testament forbids homosexual behavior as part of a code, including laws and rituals, that Christians no longer observe. As for New Testament abjurations against the practice, particularly St. Paul's strong injunctions, revisionist scholars claim that the prohibitions were aimed only against pederasty and homosexual acts by persons who were naturally heterosexual. In any event, the argument runs, the apostle would have been more understanding if he knew as much...
...perhaps the chief dark categories have remained constant and familiar. The first time that death appeared in the world, it was murder. Cain slew Abel. "Two men," says Elie Wiesel, "and one of them became a killer." The odds have presumably been fifty-fifty ever since. The Old Testament is full of savageries that sound eerily contemporary. (The British writer J.R. Ackerley once wrote to a friend, "I am halfway through Genesis, and quite appalled by the disgraceful behavior of all the characters involved, including...
Next year, she will travel to California to help manage the heavy-metal band Testament...