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...started in on Luke. But it wasn't any action. Supposed miracle births (there is nothing that miraculous about a virgin having a baby if you don't know anything about sex), bringing people back from the dead (they did that every day on "Emergency") and a whole bunch of people wandering around and talking. All the characters were boring too. None of the good guys ever did anything bad. I just couldn't relate...
...Town News: A momentary stop at this Harvard Square landmark reveals a collection of quite a different sort. Titles include such gems as The Harder the Better and Virgin Till [sic] Midnight. Not suitable for those seeking hearts and flowers, this should probably be used as a last resort...
...though she is called an orphan, Oksana says she has never really been alone: "My mother will never leave me. We're together. She will always stay in my heart." In the tiny bedroom she shares with one of Zmievskaya's daughters, she keeps pictures of the Virgin Mary but none of her mother. She does not need them...
What Rush Limbaugh Was Doing over the Same Weekend: Sailing in the Virgin Islands with Bush Commerce Secretary and millionaire Robert Mosbacher and his wife Georgette...
...Crossan, Jesus' deification was akin to the worship of Augustus Caesar -- a mixture of myth, propaganda and social convention. It was simply a thing that was done in the ancient Mediterranean world. Christ's pedigree -- his virgin birth in Bethlehem of Judea, home of his reputed ancestor King David -- is retrospective mythmaking by writers who had "already decided on the transcendental importance of the adult Jesus," Crossan says. The journey to Bethlehem from Nazareth, he adds, is "pure fiction, a creation of Luke's own imagination." He speculates that Jesus may not even have been Mary's firstborn and that...