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...relief, they turned to a source as old as Anselm. The French theologian Peter Abelard had also worked in the Middle Ages to address Jesus' role in reducing sinful humanity's distance from God, but he did so without recourse to tit-for-tat transaction. His atonement took place less as a compact between God the Father and God the Son and more in the hearts of believers cleaving to the message of Jesus' life--and the love most dramatically expressed in his willingness to die rather than renounce his calling. "Love answers love's appeal," Abelard wrote. With Jesus...
...German Prison Kampf. "The Goldbrick" (Tashlin, September 43) has SNAFU urging his fellow GIs, "I'm a goldbrick, be like me, use your head / With a heart of pure gold and a backside of lead," before singing a hymn to the lazy life to the tune of "Tit Willow" from "The Mikado." It ends with a bucktoothed Jap (they always had prominent dentures and were always called Jap) threatening, "Here lies a goldbrick, I must go find more. / If I find enough goldbrick, Japan could...
...Crimson’s pickpockets met BU nearly tit-for-tat, lifting 11 steals of their own—including five by Peljto—while forcing 21 turnovers...
...Both moves signal the army is dictating Papua policy, says Sidney Jones, head of the Jakarta office of the International Crisis Group. A cycle of tit-for-tat violence may have begun: on Dec. 1, a Papuan mob stabbed to death an Indonesian soldier in apparent retaliation for the killing last month of at least 10 alleged members of the Free Papua Movement. Such incidents will make any crackdown more severe, says Jones: "The military see Papua as a threat to Indonesia's territorial integrity. They intend to crush the autonomy movement...
...Officials say the attackers were JI members and that they believe one of the group's senior leaders, Dulmatin, played an important role in planning the killings. So far, Jakarta's swift clampdown has forestalled retaliatory attacks by Christian vigilantes that could restart the cycle of tit-for-tat violence. But according to Sidney Jones, Southeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group, there are several hundred JI members and sympathizers in the region where the attacks took place, and the danger of another provocation remains high. Although many JI operatives have been caught in the past 12 months...