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...Class size is] subject specific, topic specific and theme specific,” Bhabha says. “I think the nature of the class should reflect the nature of the particular subject or theme that is being taught, so it should reflect the intellectual and scholarly content...
...final topic of debate was defending the idea of life imprisonment without parole. The issue, chosen by the other team, was one that Roth said he had not thought much about prior to the competition...
...It’s kind of been a no-brainer, and not a politically charged topic,” he says. “No one would really argue with the contention that it’s important that Harvard students get training in writing. That’s been kind of a nice, happy place to be in the curricular review,” he adds...
...atonement "is the centerpiece of Christianity, and it's what distinguishes it from all other religions," says Giles Gasper, a religious historian who has written a book about one of the topic's great medieval interpreters. Without at least an intuitive comprehension of atonement, a believer stands little chance of making sense of the faith's promises of redemption and eternal life...
...Thus in this Lenten season the Rev. Byron Shafer, pastor of Rutgers Presbyterian Church on Manhattan's Upper West Side, gave his first atonement sermon in "eight or nine years." Chicago First United Methodist's Blackwell found himself lined up with two other talking heads on MSNBC, debating the topic as if it were an election issue or celebrity trial. And back in Geneva, the issue continues to fascinate the Bible students and their church's associate rector, Tony Welty. "The question is," says Welty, "O.K., if this really happened, why did it happen? Why did Christ...