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Over the years Pippert has taken time out from the daily reporting game he received a Master's degree in Old Testament studies on one sabbatical, garnered a Congressional fellowship during another and produced a book on "The Spiritual Journey of Jimmy Carter" in the course of a third leave of absence...
...copies sold out within 24 hours. Since then the combat between the virtuous thief Jean Valjean and the merciless detective Javert has been retold onstage and in at least 14 films. At heart, the novel's conflict is metaphysical: Valjean believes in the forgiving God of the New Testament, Javert in the retributive God of the Old Testament. The story resounds with images of Christian redemption. Yet it is by turns a panorama of the underclass, a Gothic romance about love at first sight threatened by family secrets, a psychological study and a radical tract. The novel's scale...
...control cowboy. On the day the Tower report was released, he was asked what he would like people to know about him as they go through the report. A born-again Christian, North replied, "I guess they ought to read the Eighth Beatitude of Matthew 5." That New Testament passage reads: "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." As Iranscam's investigations continue, however, North is more likely to be prosecuted for recklessness' sake...
blood-and-thunder Old Testament type...
Public bewilderment at the disease is taking many forms. Conservative leaders see it as a summons to chastity or monogamy. Many people, dealing with the absolute death sentence that AIDS imposes, consider it a vague sort of retribution, an Old Testament-style revenge. Says a Los Angeles entertainment writer: "Sexual disease has been around for thousands of years. It reappears when monogamy breaks down. AIDS pushes monogamy right back up there on the priority list." An Atlanta executive concludes, "We are paying for our sins of the '60s, when one-night stands and sex without commitment used to be chic...